"CPUs" news, interviews, and features

News about CPUs

• Beyond smartphones, Samsung wants its Exynos 9 chip in VR headsets

  Samsung's Exynos chip isn't just a side project anymore, and the processors have been rebranded

• Intel's fastest 22-core Broadwell chip comes to new servers

  Lenovo, HPE and Dell roll out new servers with Intel's new Xeon E5-2600 v4 chip

• Quantum computing is now a big step closer thanks to Australian breakthrough

  For the first time ever, scientists have found a way to build a quantum Fredkin gate

• Intel says its Celeron brand is here to stay

  The chip maker has no plans to drop the brand used for the low end of its product line

• Fastest Core i3 processor from Intel surfaces

  HP, Dell offering systems with Core i3-370m chip

• Intel's Westmere-EX chip to include 10 cores

  That will be the highest number of server cores for Intel, though rival AMD will still hold the core-number advantage

Features about CPUs

• What's in a smartphone processor? Increasingly a lot

• The 10 best hacks of 2010 (so far)

  Want another holiday to celebrate? Geek Tech presents 10 great hacks from the last 5 months for Geek Pride Day, May 25

• Multicore requires OS rework, Windows architect advises

  Microsoft architect Dave Probert sees tomorrow's OS kernel acting more like a hypervisor