Q: Looking at common CPUs for PC building and the specs for the upcoming next-generation consoles, I’ve found myself wondering: Will we need 8-core, 16-thread CPUs for gaming soon? No, not in the near ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

Again, I tested this pretty extensivly back when Intel first released the hyperthreaded P4, mostly so I could explain to my customers what to expect. I have had several people say things like "I have ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

Sounds like a thread from 2002 ... I'm trying to confirm whether a CPU in an HP DL380G4 running Solaris X86 is dual core or HyperThreading, this makes a difference of about $16,000 in Oracle licenses.

For most of the past decade, Intel has followed a fairly steady set of rules when speccing out its Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. Until last year, Core i3 chips were dual-cores with Hyper-Threading ...

Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) revealed a host of new details about its upcoming Alder Lake processors this week during its Architecture Day presentations. Chief amongst them were its new 'Performance Core' x86 ...

We are all curious to see what kind of performance Intel's upcoming Alder Lake processors will deliver, and how the hybrid architecture will play out. Answers will come in time. For now, we are left ...

The next-gen Intel Lunar Lake CPUs will be for ultra-low mobile power systems, which will succeed the current-gen Core Ultra 100U "Meteor Lake" CPUs that we've seen deployed since CES 2024 earlier ...