Intel and Nvidia may be preparing the most unusual x86 processor of the decade

Intel and Nvidia may be preparing the most unusual x86 processor of the decade

In the traditional PC processor market, the roles were clearly separated. Intel was associated with the CPU, while Nvidia was associated with the graphics card. The two technologies often worked together inside the same computer, but they usually remained separate components, connected through the motherboard and the PCI Express interface. Intel processors handled operating systems,…

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From Intel 8080 to Z80: how early microprocessors created the personal computer age

From Intel 8080 to Z80: how early microprocessors created the personal computer age

Modern processors are almost unimaginably powerful compared to the first generation of microchips that launched the personal computer revolution. A modern desktop CPU contains billions of transistors, runs at several gigahertz, and performs complex parallel operations that engineers in the 1970s could barely dream about. Smartphones now outperform entire rooms full of computers from the…

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The Russian “superprocessor” failed: 32 cores were still not enough for The Witcher 3

The Russian “superprocessor” failed: 32 cores were still not enough for The Witcher 3

A 32-core processor should sound like a serious piece of hardware. In normal PC language, that kind of core count usually belongs to workstations, servers, virtualization hosts, rendering machines, scientific systems, and other heavy-duty platforms. It suggests a processor built for demanding workloads, large amounts of parallel computation, and tasks that would overwhelm an ordinary…

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