From the CPU's perspective, a thread (short for "thread of execution") is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tells the computer what to do.

If you're building your own computer, things can quickly get complicated. Here's what CPU or processor cores are and how many your CPU should have.

It has 32 cores and 64 threads to throw at workloads, and is 53 percent faster in multi-threaded tasks than Intel's flagship Core i9-7980XE, according to AMD.

At Computex 2016 in Taipei last week, Intel announced their newest lineup of processors which included a brand new 10-core Extreme Edition processor. The focal point of Intel’s new line-up of ...

Your CPU core isn't a single unit. Even putting aside things like L1 and L2 caches, and the registers where the core loads and stores values, modern processor cores have numerous functional units ...

Intel’s Scalable Platform and the Xeon Gold 6146 processor show us what they can do. We’re taking the processor for a spin and test it out.

New Geekbench numbers have appeared ahead of AMD 's official launch, and they depict a 6-core, 12-thread processor with the codename Matisse (which of course is Zen 2).

AMD's Ryzen processors are the equivalent to Intel's Core i3/i5/i7/i9. They have a somewhat similar number-grading scheme, e.g. "Ryzen 5" is their mid-tier offering like an Intel i5 is. To do a ...