What is the BIOS, CMOS, and UEFI?

BIOS stands for basic input/output system. The BIOS is a firmware that is built into the motherboard that initializes the computer’s hardware as the computer is being booted. After it initializes the hardware it then searches for a boot device such as an optical drive or a storage drive to boot software such as an operating system.

How GitHub Works.

GitHub is a platform that helps people solve problems by building software together. So, how does it work? Let us take the very basic example given by GitHub, all the time!

i9 9900K: 9th generation Intel

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

Architecture War: 32bit vs 64bit

 

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.