Ever since at least the Ryzen 3000 series, AMD's release schedule for its Ryzen desktop processors has been to launch the enthusiast-focused "X" processors first, and then release the very-slightly ...

A new AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D leak provides us with a tempting glimpse of some potentially major advances made by this next-gen ...

At that time, many software titles – especially games – were developed with a specific machine in mind and were tied to the specific clock frequency of the CPU to function properly.

The first CPU to reach a clock speed of 4 GHz was the Pentium 4 570 released in November 2004 as part of Intel's NetBurst microarchitecture, but this milestone wasn't achieved out of the box.

The researchers said the all-optical design redefined how clock signals were generated for chips, opening the door to faster, more efficient computing. The main processor of any computer – its ...