Every hardware claim is equal, but some are more equal than others Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has explained ...

While it's not the only factor at play, a PC's CPU and its clock speed greatly determine how your machine will perform under ...

Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly ...

An operational state in Intel CPU chips starting with the 286 in 1982. It makes the CPU function like the original 16-bit Intel 8086/8088 chip, which was limited to 1MB of memory. DOS applications ...