Leading AI systems designs are migrating away from building the fastest AI processor possible, adopting a more balanced approach that involves highly specialized, heterogeneous compute elements, ...

Nothing ever made is truly perfect and indeed, CPU architectures like x86, RISC-V, ARM, and PowerPC all have their own upsides and downsides. Today, I aim to make an architecture that learns from all ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim is a principal analyst and partner at TIRIAS Research. Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture ...

The release of next-gen gaming CPUs is inherently tied to the development of new breakthroughs in CPU manufacturing and design. One such step towards a future Intel CPU design has seemingly been ...

Over more than three decades, Arm evolved into a leading CPU architecture supplier for smartphones and embedded devices, licensing CPU architectures and core designs to customers such as Apple (AAPL), ...

For years, processors focused on performance, and that performance had little accountability to anything else. Performance still matters, but now it must be accountable to power. If small gains in ...

AMD’s roadmap marches on: the company confirmed the presence of its next-generation Zen 7 architecture, its “Gorgon” and “Medusa” 2026 and 2027 processors, and talked briefly about the company’s ...

Explore the 2026 ARM vs x86 battle—comparing processor architecture, CPU performance, and energy efficiency to reveal which chip design leads modern computing innovation. Pixabay, kenchan4 The ...

Matthew is a PC Hardware Writer at XDA, having previously written for Digital Trends, Tom's Hardware, and other publications since 2018. He's mainly interested in the three way fight between AMD, ...