Research teams looking to crunch massive data sets have had access to IBM's quantum processor through the cloud for about a year, and now the company is upping that power with a new generation of ...

As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

When it comes to computers, faster is better, isn't it? Yes ... to a point. Having hit a limit on the sheer speed of computer processors in recent years, chip manufacturers now meld the brains of ...

Computers have reached the point of being a commodity, with low prices and many brands to choose from. This progression of technology has made personal computing affordable to almost everyone, and the ...

Engineers have proposed a method of cutting power use and costs in computer processors. Called fine-grained power gating, the method would shut off energy to unused portions of datapath and memory ...

In a California laboratory, there's a cold, white room that looks like a scene right out of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Inside, there's a loud hum and eight rectangular cabinets that look like black, shiny ...

Almost exactly 50 years ago, the American electrical engineer Gordon E. Moore made a prediction which would come to have a profound impact on people’s expectations about technology. Writing in ...

Could a flexible processor stuck on your produce track the freshness of your cantaloupe? That’s the idea behind the latest processor from UK computer chip designer Arm, which says such a device could ...

Research shows that energy constraints on a system, coupled with an intrinsic property of systems, push silicon neurons to create a dynamic, at-a-distance communication that is more robust and ...

Intel finally has some competition in the computer processor market. AMD's new chips are finally viable and less expensive alternatives to Intel's chips. As with anything, consumers benefit greatly ...