Extreme Tech has a worthwhile CPU architecture overview up. The article covers some basics of CPU architecture, like pipelining, caching, etc., and then gives a brief overview of a few modern ...

Chipset architecture used to be split into two main chips: the Northbridge for fast stuff like the CPU and RAM, and the ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...