When purchasing a processor or desktop computer, you often look at the clock speed. Calculated in megahertz and gigahertz, or MHz and GHz, these measurements only tell one small part of the story of ...

I’ve worked with a lot of students who want to program computers. In particular, a lot of them want to program games. However, when they find out that after a few weeks of work they won’t be able to ...

PC users on the go require long battery life, but don’t want to sacrifice performance. Balancing these contradictory requirements are at the heart of Intel’s new CPU architecture, code-named Haswell, ...