A CPU, or central processing unit, is a vital part of your computer or phone, and is responsible for executing every command you or an app makes.

Many of us wonder what the point of a graphics card or Graphics Processing System (GPU) in our computers is. Few people think it’s only for those who play games. But having a graphics card is not just ...

Flinging brightly coloured objects around a screen at high speed is not what computers’ central processing units were designed for. So manufacturers of arcade machines invented the graphics-processing ...

SHANGHAI, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Chinese chipmaker Loongson Technology announced the launch of a new generation of domestic-made computer central processing units (CPUs), the Loongson 3A6000, and a ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

Data processing units (DPUs) have emerged as an important deployment option for datacentres that run heavy data-centric workloads such as artificial intelligence (AI) and analytics processing, and to ...