A question: does anyone who was around in the early days of the 8-bit computer revolution remember a dual-CPU 6502 portable machine like this one? Or just a dual-CPU machine? Or even just a reasonably ...

The DIY personal computer space was historically dominated by Intel in Japan. As recently as 2017, the American tech company held close to an 84 percent share in the market space. The landscape began ...

AMD and Intel CPUs from a vending machine? It would be weird to hear of it until you discover that this gizmo was spotted in Japan: a world-famous country for its vending machines. A group of AMD ...

I suppose the holy grail would be to bootstrap your custom CPU into a full-blown Linux system. That’s a big enough job that I haven’t done it. Although you might be more productive than I am, you ...

I have 2 identical virtual machines on 2 different hosts, with 2 different hypervisors (Hype-V and VMWare) and different cpus beneath. What benchmark software do you recommend for cpu and RAM (also ...

The mini living room gaming PC could still be one of the most affordable options around, but not even Valve can change PC ...

Ever since Soft Machines first revealed their plans for a VISC style processor, many CPU fans have grown interested in what is essentially “reverse Hyper-Threading”. Today the CPU design house ...

A well-funded chip startup, Soft Machines, is taking the popular but abstract concept of virtual machines and applying it to the chip level. Soft Machines is debuting what it calls a Virtual ...

Built my current main machine in Jan. 2019 (first retirement build): i5-9600K, GTX 1080, 16GB memory, 650w PSU, some spinny storage and an SSD for booting. I tend to keep machines 8-10 years, with ...

The ASRock BC250, a server blade repurposed for gaming, features a PlayStation 5-based APU with a Zen 2 CPU and RDNA2 GPU. According to ETA Prime, the GPU is configured with 24 compute units (CUs) by ...