A correction was made to this story. Read below for details. SAN FRANCISCO--Will Intel get back into the business of selling computer memory? It might, if one of the ideas in a recent chip prototype ...

Nine X3D CPUs, two platforms, and 14 games tested. We compare every Ryzen 5 and 7 X3D processor to find out how much performance has improved ...

Crisis wars.

My last blog post concluded that a plethora of new memory performance attributes are becoming available. This is in stark contrast with the traditional image of the memory suppliers as a few large ...

The CPU is idle — it's waiting, and Task Manager doesn't show you what it's waiting for.

While most of the focus on this blog tends to be on the memory cell structures, the memory interface to the rest of the system is also a critical element in the system architecture. The interface ...

If you have felt your Mac is curiously sluggish, you may have opened Activity Monitor to investigate at some point and ...

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