There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your ...

Amid a more contested laptop processor market than ever, Intel's next-gen mobile CPUs promise to bring the AI heat and drop power consumption drastically. Here's the skinny on the coming silicon. I ...

Intel’s Core Ultra 200 series is currently bifurcated between two architectures: Lunar Lake, which powers the Core Ultra 200V series of laptop chips; and Arrow Lake, which is included in the Core ...

What is a Processor: Today, smartphones have become an integral part of our lives. From calling to gaming, video editing, online payments, and artificial intelligence, everything is done on the phone.

Intel’s fastest chip isn’t automatically its best buy, so we ranked the desktop processors offering the strongest balance of ...

Richard is the PC Hardware Lead at XDA and has been covering the technology industry for almost two decades. He's been building PCs since young, and when not creating content, you can often find him ...

CPU cache is the fast memory between the cores and main memory. What L1, L2, and L3 each do, why cache lines are 64 bytes, and when more cache actually makes a processor faster.

A week ago, we were discussing the misconception that CPU performance doesn't matter for 4K gaming. We showed that although sometimes it doesn't matter – as you will indeed end up GPU limited – that's ...