Haven't really put much thought into CPUs lately, but had this come up and I'm disappointed my Google-fu did not find a good answer I remember hyper-threading, where a core was 'pseudo-divided' into ...

Q: Looking at common CPUs for PC building and the specs for the upcoming next-generation consoles, I’ve found myself wondering: Will we need 8-core, 16-thread CPUs for gaming soon? No, not in the near ...

In an effort to match the pace of change, Intel has stuffed another two cores into its mainstream Coffee Lake silicon. Enter: the Intel Core i7 9700K, one of only three 9th Gen processors on the ...

Again, I tested this pretty extensivly back when Intel first released the hyperthreaded P4, mostly so I could explain to my customers what to expect. I have had several people say things like "I have ...

As Intel releases 18 desktop Core chips (and 7 others) on Tuesday, the company also answers a question that arose when it debuted its 9th-generation desktop Core microprocessors in October. The ...

Earlier this week, we reported that there will initially be three processors launched in the upcoming 9 th generation Intel Core family, which is being called the Coffee Lake Refresh. Interestingly ...

Nine months ago, Intel reigned supreme from the low end, all the way to its flagship CPU - the Core i7-6950X, which offered 10 cores for a sum of $1,700. Then AMD fired a number of hard-hitting ...

Intel has been having a bear of a time keeping Coffee Lake Refresh processors that have not yet been released under wraps. Leak after leak have provided curious folks such as ourselves with unofficial ...

The launch of the new Raptor Lake-S desktop platform from Intel is upon us, the range is almost completely defined and in essence we shouldn't have big surprises regarding the models compared to the ...

It now looks almost certain that Intel is adding Hyper-Threading to its Comet Lake-S desktop processors and in a much bigger way than it did with its 8th and 9th generation Coffee Lake models. New ...