Fire up the 2013 remix of the Eagles "Desperado". Listen to the beat: That's 60 beats per minute, or to an engineer, 1 Hertz (Hz). Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" is around twice that. It sounds fast, but ...

Intel's upcoming Core i5-13500 processor has been tested in engineering sample (ES) form, with the small review taking a gander at the performance, and thermal/power of the "Q8WH" engineering sample ...

Milpitas, Sunnyvale, and Fremont, Calif. – Open-Silicon, Inc., MIPS Technologies, Inc., and Virage Logic have achieved successful 65 nanometer (nm) silicon testing of a processor test chip at 1.1GHz, ...

One of the most frequently touted measures of processor performance is a given chip's speed in gigahertz. Processors with higher GHz ratings can, theoretically, do more in a given unit of time than ...

This test is an automated set of benchmarks that, once complete, can verify the product being tested and its stability, as well as its performance. Once the product has been finished its benchmarking ...

Recently AMD made a move to their 45nm node to manufacture the newer model Phenom II processors. What does that mean? Well, explaining Phenom II can be best done by looking at what the first ...

It will not be too terribly long before AMD launches its next-generation Ryzen 3000 series, a new line of processors based on its Zen 2 architecture. In the meantime, there are plenty of leaks and ...

With the Front Side Bus officially annihilated, things tend to change a little in the overclocking department. Only a little though. It's a little weird but the concept remains the same. In the BIOS ...

Qualcomm is trying to tighten its grip on the high end of the smartphone market with a new top-end processor promising 10% more performance than its predecessor, offering clock speeds of over 3 GHz ...

The RT Series PXI embedded controllers let designers create fast real-time systems able to execute control loops at 40 kHz. The NI 8176 RT uses a 1.2-GHz processor. It runs LabView Real-Time control ...