Heat is not a new problem in computer and semiconductor design. It goes back all the way to ENIAC in 1946. In the early 1950s, companies air-conditioned their computer rooms to combat heat. Starting ...

The furor surrounding ChatGPT and other similar AI projects doesn't only focus on what such chatbots are doing now. They're certainly already courting controversy (attracting legal trouble for sharing ...

All Android smartphones and all Apple iPhones use CPUs based on the Arm Instruction Set Architecture (ISA). An ISA defines the instruction set and outlines the design philosophy behind that ...

News that Samsung is shutting down custom CPU core development for its Exynos smartphone SoCs is a disappointment for silicon aficionados. The mobile chip market will undoubtedly be less interesting ...

I’ve worked with a lot of students who want to program computers. In particular, a lot of them want to program games. However, when they find out that after a few weeks of work they won’t be able to ...

After waiting months for an update on AMD’s Phoenix 2 mobile CPU architecture, a report has confirmed that a new six-core (die) Ryzen 3 mobile CPU is coming soon that should feature the Phoenix 2 ...

Many market dynamics have driven the PC ecosystem to the point where they emulate many of the mobile experiences we get from our smartphones. The growth of the smartphone industry and its current size ...

We don't have a perpetual general thread, so.... This video sounds kind of interesting. From what it sounds like, there are a number of circuits (one for each operation) on tiles in the CPU (not like ...

AMD knew it needed to make radical changes in its Zen CPU chip to become a force in the PC and server markets again. So when the chip designers sat down four years ago to etch out the Zen design, they ...

Many companies, Apple, Samsung, and Qualcomm included, like to rely on their own custom ARM CPU architectures for their chips, but the CPUs and GPUs that ARM itself designs for other companies to use ...

When we saw Intel’s NUC Compute Element this summer in Taipei, we thought that Intel’s spin on a modular laptop was interesting, though odd. It turns out that “odd” has an older sibling. Meet the ...