processors

• Article | 15/02/2012 HP, Intel rethink processor upgrades in servers

  Hewlett-Packard and Intel are rethinking processor upgrades in servers, coming up with a new chip-slotting technique that could reduce the chance of e...
• Article | 15/02/2012 HP to make ARM servers available for testing in Q2

  Hewlett-Packard will open a lab in the second quarter where select customers will be able to play around with its first low-power server based on an A...
• Article | 15/02/2012 Intel targets networking market with new chipset

  Intel on Tuesday introduced the Crystal Forest chipset, which the company hopes will fill a networking gap as it tries to build an integrated technolo...
• Article | 11/02/2012 Wall Street Beat: Earnings, spending forecasts highlight tech sector strength

  Recent market research reports and earnings this week from tech bellwethers including Lenovo and Cisco Systems underscore underlying strength in IT ev...
• Article | 4/02/2012 AMD's move could pave the way for ARM in future chips

  Advanced Micro Devices has loosened its commitment to the x86 architecture, announcing a new design strategy that could pave the way for using ARM tec...

• Article | 13/08/2010 How to get more from a quad-core PC

  QUESTION: My Windows 7 Home Premium computer has a quad-core processor and 4GB of RAM. I've not found any advantage to using four cores. How can I use...
• Article | 1/07/2010 Part Three: Building a PC -- installing the CPU

  This article is the third in a series of how-to stories on building a computer. For a video version of part three, click here.
• Article | 28/06/2010 How to: Overclocking for newbies

  Overclocking refers to pushing your computer components harder and faster than the manufacturer designed them to go. The initial pitch is seductive: B...
• Article | 23/06/2010 Chip Showdown: A guide to the best CPUs on the market

  When you're shopping for a new PC, don't meekly settle for the default processor recommended by the configurator. Picking the right CPU is a personal ...

• Article | 12/01/2011 ARM CEO: PC market not our target

  Chip design firm ARM grabbed the spotlight at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week when Microsoft announced that its new Windows OS wo...
• Article | 8/01/2011 Is the Microsoft-Intel marriage finally over?

  Cringely here, reporting from CES in Vegas, where rude beasts walk the earth (at least, the ones that don't crawl or slither), impeded in their forwar...
• Article | 16/08/2010 Ways to share spare CPU cycles

  A network of hundreds of thousands of home computer users recently discovered a rare celestial object by donating their computers' downtime to a worth...
• Article | 7/07/2010 Intel breaks mold, poised to fill 'compute continuum' gaps

  Chip manufacturer Intel is defying conventions and moving out of its established space in personal computing systems, and spreading their territory to...
• Article | 18/02/2009 MIT guitar combines acoustics and electronics

  A prototype guitar built by US student Amit Zoran combines the natural acoustics of wood with the power of electronic processing

Whitepapers about processors

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  Sun Blade 6000 Modular System: Power and Cooling Efficiency

  Most IT organizations are struggling with the need to deploy ever more applications in the fixed space, power, and cooling envelope of their data centers, the ability to save even a hundred watts per system quickly turns into more breathing room for future applications and the servers to run them. Read on.