In both PC and server platforms, the performance gains were significant -- and positioned the CPU makers well when they both reached the quad-core milestones during the last major IT refresh cycle.

Let's talk about AMD's next-generation Zen 6. It has already been all but confirmed that AMD will finally be increasing the core count of a Ryzen CCD to 12 cores from a ...

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For as long as I’ve been building PCs, there’s been one number that always gets enthusiasts buzzing – core count. In most cases, every leap forward in desktop processors has been measured in how many ...

How many cores is enough for server CPUs? All that we can get, and then some. For the past two decades, the game in compute engines has been to try to pack as many cores and additional functionality ...

Android smartphone users looking for more control over their devices have been rooting their phones and using software like SetCPU to manually adjust the processor speed for years. But now that dual, ...

Why do we complain about hardware bottlenecks when the software isn't written to take full advantage of all the cores and oomph hardware has? Why is it always the fault of the hardware and not the ...

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