In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

Veteran reporter and editor with over ten years of experience. Probably reading comic books. This past week Sony took a major step toward the next generation of PlayStation consoles, officially ...

AMD's next-gen Radeon RX 480 is finally here, and it rocks quite a lot of performance for $199 - but what about the CPU side of the business? Zen isn't going to be here for a little while yet, but the ...

At some point, everyone learns that a CPU has a variable number of cores inside, and that number influences its performance. The next natural impulse is to find out how many cores your CPU has. The ...

I'm looking at getting a new laptop, and would like some help understanding processor specs. I currently have an 'Early 2015' Retina 13-inch macbook pro. The processor is listed as a 2.7 GHz Dual-Core ...

Intel has announced its latest Extreme Edition processor, the Core i7-980X. Like the recently released 2010 Clarkdale lineup, the i7-980X (previously code-named Gulftown) brings Intel’s turbo boost ...

Intel has announced its new Xeon 600 'Granite Rapids' workstation CPUs: flagship Xeon 698X has 86 cores, 172 threads for ...