In a little under an hour, researchers at the University of Texas in Austin plan to reveal a fully functional prototype of a new computer processor it's proponents claim will scale to the "end of ...

A short primer on CPU architecture fundamentals. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I was recently writing about AMD's new Zen ...

Intel announced its family of Xeon Scalable Processors in early May, featuring the Skylake-SP microarchitecture. Those processors haven’t officially launched just yet, but today the chip giant is ...

Innovation in the high performance computing world requires that new technology be created while maintaining compatibility with older applications. The Intel Xeon Phi processor is an example of ...

With growing interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in today’s processors has recently ...

Exploiting memory leaks, injecting code into processes, and a variety of side-channel attacks could become much more difficult to pull off if a technique for creating a "morphable" processor ...