Saddled with an old, slow processor in your laptop? Ripping it out and subbing in a new one can result in an exceptional boost in speed. For instance, upgrading from a 1.66-GHz Intel Core Duo to a ...

However, some motherboard manufacturers offer convenient apps that attempt to safely overclock your CPU for you. If these manual steps seem a little tough, then check out the likes of Asus Dual ...

Today, we're comparing the three X3D chips available on the AM4 platform: the Ryzen 5 5600X3D, Ryzen 7 5700X3D, and Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Technically, most of you will only have access to the Ryzen 7 ...

Xiaomi has fully revealed the XRING 01, which is its first custom smartphone processor in several years. The new chipset has a powerful deca-core CPU and a cutting-edge Arm Immortalis-G925 MC16 GPU.

The market is filled with low-profile CPU coolers, because they are cheap to produce and fit into every case. The problem is, most of them aren't much better than stock coolers, if at all.

Microsoft's insistence on PopCnt for Windows 11 24H2 is likely for its AI capabilities, though there's speculation about the inadvertent activation of newer CPU instruction sets.

The Huawei Mate 50 series does not support 5G networks and only uses a 4G processor. However, the disassembly reveals something interesting about this device. It reserves a space for 5G radio ...

Within my June 12 EDN issue’s lengthy Prying Eyes teardown of Argus’ DCM-099 low-cost digicam, I wrote: Speaking of encapsulation, the chip-on-board system processor likely can be found under the blob ...