TL;DR: Intel's new patent reveals Software Defined Super Cores (SDC), enabling multiple smaller cores to dynamically fuse into a virtual "Super Core" to boost single-threaded performance and IPC ...

The refresh of Intel's Raptor Lake processors family is expected to increase the core count of high-end and performance mainstream CPUs, but the flagship products will gain frequency while retaining ...

The single-threaded performance of Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 285K is out and it has put up a score better than AMD's 9950X, Apple's M3, and Qualcomm's Snapdragon Elite. Last month, Intel revealed ...

The P cores are higher performance for a single thread but the E cores are much higher performance for multiple threads. Right now Intel has to decide the mix of P cores and E cores when they produce ...

Nvidia has been producing enterprise-grade CPUs to complement its capable GPUs for a while now, but it's never released anything in the consumer space. That may be set to change, though, as the ...

Intel announced a new program yesterday designed to give overclockers an extra feeling of safety if they choose to push their processors beyond recommended specs. The Performance Tuning Protection ...

There's evidence to suggest that Intel's Arrow Lake CPUs are out in the wild in engineering sample form (early ES chips recently showed up for sale in China for $14 a pop), which is to be expected at ...

Intel launches Xeon 600 Series workstation CPUs, featuring Granite Rapids-WS, up to 86 cores, PCIe 5.0, and support for AI workloads.