Intel has a chance to silence critics of its socket longevity when Nova Lake arrives, whch is expected to introduce a new LGA 1954 socket.

It’s been almost two years since AMD introduced its Ryzen 7000 series desktop CPUs and the Zen 4 CPU architecture. Today, AMD is announcing the first concrete details about their successors. The Ryzen ...

At GTC 2026, Nvidia launched the Vera CPU, a processor built specifically to meet the growing demands of agentic AI. Vera is ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

For many years of back-and-forth between Intel and AMD, one thing has remained pretty certain: if you want platform longevity ...

In just a week, we went from only having one option for AI PCs, or what Microsoft calls Copilot+PC, to three. At Computex, Intel announced the new Core Ultra system-on-chip (SoC) codenamed Lunar Lake ...

The design, verification, and implementation of a processor is the core competence of some companies, but others just want to whip up a small processor as quickly and cheaply as possible. What tools ...

The release of next-gen gaming CPUs is inherently tied to the development of new breakthroughs in CPU manufacturing and design. One such step towards a future Intel CPU design has seemingly been ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...

Nvidia (NVDA) debuts Groq 3 LPU and Vera CPU at GTC 2026, expanding beyond GPUs to challenge Intel and AMD in AI data centers with new inference technology.