CPUs and Processors

AMD wants to improve gaming in Linux and Steam boxes with its Mantle tools

Unisys phasing out decades-old mainframe processor for x86 chips

Bing gets a performance boost from reconfigurable chips

Intel wants your next PC to have no wires

Nvidia startles Linux world with driver contribution

One of the Linux community's least favorite companies performs an abrupt about-face

Encryption is less secure than we hoped

New research finds that guessing is a better strategy for decrypting files than we thought it was

Start-ups lean hard on CPU-based security technology to protect virtual environments

Start-up PrivateCore among the latest to rely on Intel Sandy Bridge CPU for security features

Hadoop + GPU: Boost performance of your big data project by 50x-200x?

Ending the Microprocessor Wars: The Cloud Floats In

Apple’s announcement of iCloud today reinforces the trend towards infocentricity that I first noted many years ago. And it also shifts the focus away from that core of the computer industry, the microprocessor. Is the computer industry as we kn

Researchers’ SSL offloader costs fraction of commercial hardware

Use of graphic processing units slashes costs, delivers similar performance