As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

It turns out that something most humans take for granted—the ability to see, process and then act on visual input—is extraordinarily difficult to replicate in machines. That’s precisely what computer ...

APU stands for Accelerated Processing Unit. It refers to a kind of processor that combines a CPU and GPU into a single package. A CPU, or central processing unit, handles all of the logical and ...

At the core of a quantum computer is the quantum processor, but these technologies are vastly different from the CPUs found in conventional computers. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

This article tries to bring a little more clarity to what is a computer-implemented invention —and what is an obvious use of a computer —by reviewing some of the Alice v CLS Bank oral arguments.