Ever since 3dfx debuted the original Voodoo accelerator, no single piece of equipment in a PC has had as much of an impact on whether your machine could game as the humble graphics card. While other ...

Recent AMD processors haven’t come with integrated graphics — and the few that do live under the “APU” umbrella. However, a new leaked document suggests that could change with AMD’s next generation of ...

This year’s Intel Architecture Day included a deep dive into some of the big changes Intel has announced for the next few years, including next-gen processors that combing high-performance and ...

Thirty years ago, CPUs and other specialized processors handled virtually all computation tasks. The graphics cards of that era helped to speed up the drawing of 2D shapes in Windows and applications, ...

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A CPU, or central processing unit, is like the brain of any computer or mobile device. CPUs receive data from every other part of the device, and then decide how and when to launch apps, display ...

Laptops are complicated, holistic pieces of machinery. Everything from the display to the keyboard to the internals matter. But the CPU and GPU are the engines that drive everything else. With laptop ...