Today’s supply chain issues can make it hard to buy microcontrollers, or really any kind of semiconductor. But for those keeping retrocomputers alive, this problem has always existed: ancient ...

PC users on the go require long battery life, but don’t want to sacrifice performance. Balancing these contradictory requirements are at the heart of Intel’s new CPU architecture, code-named Haswell, ...

I'm sure most of you already know that modern CPUs run hot out of the box. In recent years, both Intel and AMD have pushed their chips closer to their thermal and power limits than ever before. That's ...

For many PC users, a CPU bottleneck is the scariest thing that can happen to them. The moment they hear this term, their mind conjures up images of crippled performance, lackluster framerates, and ...