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Apple's M1 chip revolutionized computing and set a new standard for performance and efficiency. For the fifth anniversary of ...

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For engineers looking forward to the future chips powering their products and systems, the annual Hot Chips conference gives an under-the-hood glimpse at some of the next-generation processors they ...

Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz ...

Intel’s Alder Lake-N processors have proven popular with budget laptop, Chromebook, and mini PC makers since they first debuted nearly two years ago. These chips are basically what you get if you take ...

A hard drive might be the "heart" of a computer, but the central processing unit is the "brain" -- an approximately 2-inch silicon square that handles the complex tasks. IT director Brian Harris sorts ...

As the Q3 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the processors and graphics chips ...

Broadcom Inc. today detailed a new chip packaging technology, XDSiP, that makes it possible to create processors by stacking multiple silicon dies atop another. XDSiP is short for eXtreme Dimension ...