NPU processors are taking the tech world by storm by revolutionizing device efficiency and speed Curious about what an NPU (neural processing unit) is and what it does? Here's the lowdown, including ...

The term “central processing unit” (CPU) has popularly applied to a number of different parts of a computer over the past few decades, but it most commonly denotes the microprocessor chip that acts as ...

Today we’re going to build the ticking heart of every computer. Take the 2017 PBS Digital Studios Survey: http://surveymonkey.com/r/pbsds2017. Today we’re going ...

Tech's biggest players have fully embraced the AI revolution. Apple, Qualcomm and Huawei have made mobile chipsets that are designed to better tackle machine-learning tasks, each with a slightly ...

CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the most important part of a computer. All the calculations needed to run a particular task or application on a computer are processed by the CPU. That’s why it is ...

The term "gigahertz," or "GHz," refers to the operating speed of a central processing unit; hertz defines the clock rate, or cycles per second, of the CPU. 1 GHz is equivalent to one billion hertz.

In an embedded system, the sole connection point between the software and the hardware is the processor. Somewhere right now the effort to develop software for a complex System-on-Chip (SoC) is ...

Physics hardware manufacturer Ageia was on hand at E3 to give us a progress update on the new PhysX processing unit that it announced a couple of months ago at the Game Developers Conference. Ageia ...

The central processing unit (CPU) is either a dedicated integrated circuit (IC) or intellectual property (IP) core on an IC that processes logic and math. A CPU can handle high-level provisioning of ...