Under normal circumstances, the CPU in your desktop PC generates modest amounts of heat; a smart fan on top of the CPU runs just fast enough to keep it cool. At this speed, you barely hear the fan.

Engineers at North Carolina State University have found a way to significantly boost the performance of fused-together processing units. The team fused a graphic processing unit (GPU) and central ...

When purchasing a processor or desktop computer, you often look at the clock speed. Calculated in megahertz and gigahertz, or MHz and GHz, these measurements only tell one small part of the story of ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...