One year ago discussions were going about Intel’s coffee lake chips and now they are back with the ninth generation core Intel chips also called the coffee lake refresh. The first coffee lake brought us Intel’s first six-core mainstream processors and now the Refresh is launching with the i9 9900 K, an 8 core processor that can boost up to Continue reading
This ‘vs’ was started by the tech crowd when AMD launched their first desktop CPU with a 64-bit architecture, early in 2003. Again when a smartphone with a 64-bit CPU came, it become a hot topic once more. But what does it actually mean for an average customer? Starting with what a bit, very briefly, one bit is a single character in binary either 1 or 0, so it can only express up to 2 values. Now with 2 bits, we can express up to 4 values similarly with 3 bits that go up to 8. Continue reading
Since 1970s there’s been a never-ending demand for higher quality smoother graphics in video games but the very earliest GPUs in game consoles weren’t really GPUs at all. Instead of being general-purpose microprocessors that we see in modern graphics cards, earlier video controllers were more or less hard-coded, to only output specific Continue reading
A CPU is a terrifically complex piece of hardware. Even Intel’s most lightweight processors comprise more than 40 million transistors on a piece of silicon the size of a fingernail. And it isn’t only about numbers: the way these transistors implement the core logic that drives laptops and desktop PCs is the product of some seriously advanced electronic engineering.
Although the physical construction of CPUs may be abstruse, it isn’t hard to understand the principles of how modern processors are designed, and how they work. An understanding of how instructions are processed inside the CPU can also help programmers construct their code so it will run as quickly and efficiently as possible – although these days much processor optimization is handled automatically by the compiler. Continue reading
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