Continuing his reverse-engineering of the Intel 8087, [Ken Shirriff] covers the conditional tests that are implemented in the microcode of this floating point processing unit (FPU). This microcode ...

ASRock is preparing to enter the all-in-one liquid cooling segment with a new lineup that includes both traditional AIO designs and a more experimental pumpless solution. The move marks an expansion ...

Head-on (left) and side-view (right) snapshots of a galactic disk of gas. These snapshots of gas distribution after a supernova explosion were generated by the deep learning surrogate model.

Arctic is one of the market leaders for CPU cooler performance, which is incredible given that they’re more often than not, one of the more affordable brands too. This is because they focus on ...

THE value of block diagrams in geographical and geological instruction cannot be questioned, but many teachers find these difficult to draw, especially on the blackboard, at short notice. Prof. Lobeck ...

With Battlefield 6 on the horizon - plus plenty of Borderlands 4, MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries and Hades 2 to play - I wanted to upgrade my AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RTX 4090 Founders Edition gaming PC to ...

A 163-page PDF of the iPhone 16e electrical schematics was briefly made public by the FCC, despite Apple’s express request to keep them confidential. Here’s what they showed. The filing included a ...

One of my favorite things about PC hardware is that it’s always getting better. Every year I get to enjoy the latest CPUs, GPUs, and memory advances and watch those numbers go up in turn. But there’s ...

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GPUs are crucial to modern computing. You're probably reading this on a screen that's making use of a GPU. But what is a GPU? What are they good for? Join us for a layman's overview. A graphics ...