As part of Apple’s flurry of Mac announcements earlier this week, the company announced the new M5 Pro and M5 Max processors. And those chips are shaking up the way that Apple designs and talks about ...

Let's talk about AMD's next-generation Zen 6. It has already been all but confirmed that AMD will finally be increasing the core count of a Ryzen CCD to 12 cores from a ...

There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

A new Intel gaming CPU with a massive 52 cores has just been hinted at in a shipping manifest, just a week after a 28-core model was seen elsewhere. That core count far outstrips anything we've seen ...

Intel has recently filed a patent for a technology called Software Defined Super Cores, and it could be a huge boost for the company’s CPUs. A boost that Intel sorely needs. Once upon a time, Intel ...

I knew this was coming — I just didn’t expect it to happen quite just yet. It turns out that some of the best processors are on their way toward retirement, because eight-core CPUs are slowly becoming ...

Intel is launching its next-generation mobile platform today, code-named Lunar Lake. That architecture is specifically designed for thin-and-light laptops, so it's just one product segment instead of ...

TL;DR: Intel's new Bartlett Lake CPUs target the embedded and edge markets with up to 12 high-performance P-Cores in the flagship Core 9 273PQE. The lineup includes Core 5, 7, and 9 variants featuring ...

Returning to a unified core design would give Intel extra room on the chip for more performance cores, but it would be a complete redesign and layout change.