I used to follow the processor business very closely and go to Microprocessor Forum, the premiere show in the industry, every year. One of the arguments made by the hardware geniuses, although never ...

If you’re in a panic to figure out how to turn off Intel’s Hyper-Threading feature to prevent ZombieLoad, the latest Spectre-like CPU security exploit, then take a deep breath: Intel’s official ...

The chipmaker's "hyper-threading" technology for boosting chip performance will debut soon with its first server versions of the Pentium 4 chip. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

EDIT: Since publishing this article, myself and several other journalists have been looking a little deeper into the slide below and noticed a number of 'out of character' stylizations for a typical ...

As we've come to learn recently, there are four new hardware vulnerabilities that affect Intel processors. These new flaws allow attackers to leak confidential data by exploiting microarchitectural ...

The OpenBSD project is killing off support for Intel CPU hyper-threading due to security concerns regarding the theoretical threat of more “Spectre-class bugs”. For those who came in late ...

Last week, we reviewed Intel's Core i7-7700K and discussed the details on the Kaby Lake refresh cycle, including Intel's new Core i3, i5, and i7 processors. Intel, however, appears to have had one ...

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.

Intel's new Hyper-Threading equipped Pentiums offer excellent performance for very little money. AMD's Ryzen is coming soon, but if you're an Intel-only enthusiast, these budget chips have a lot to ...

More slides have been posted online, this time via informaticacero.com in an apparent leak of more details surrounding Intel's 10th Gen desktop CPU plans for 2020. This time, the existence of F and KF ...

Intel's powerful six-core, multi-threading i7-980X processor is finally being put to the test with the release of new gaming and graphics software capable of tapping many of the processor's 12 threads ...