An interesting detail about the Intel 8087 floating point processor (FPU) is that it’s a co-processor that shares a bus with the 8086 or 8088 CPU and system memory, which means that somehow ...

For more than a year, information on AMD's next-generation CPU architecture, codenamed Zen, has tantalized the company's fans -- and those who simply want a more effective competitor against Intel.

There's a rumor that Intel might adopt a big.Little architecture for its future desktops... and there are a lot of questions about that rumor, too. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

An important part of qualification testing is running the processor through a wide variety of benchmarks and stress tests to make sure it performs properly in each workload. That's one reason that we ...