There's Intel and AMD on the x86 side, with Apple and Qualcomm making Arm-based processors on the other. We break down the advantages and drawbacks of each to help you pick the right chip for your needs and budget. Alan Bradley CNET Contributor Alan ...

Have you ever wondered what those confusing letters and numbers at the end of the CPU mean? Every year, Intel and AMD release new generations of their CPUs with updated specifications and sometimes new branding. The entire naming of the CPU consists of ...

Intel’s 14th-generation desktop processors were a mild update on top of a mild update: a barely faster revision of the 13th-gen Core CPUs, which were themselves a modest tweak to 2021’s 12th-gen Core processors. The new Core Ultra CPUs (and their ...

Benchlife explained: "Although the Intel Innovation 2024 event has been postponed, the Arrow Lake-S for desktop computers, also known as Intel Core Ultra 2 series processors, according to the information we have obtained, Intel currently plans to release ...

At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, AMD officially took the wraps off its latest generation of mobile and desktop processors: the Ryzen AI 400 Series. Building on the foundation of the Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" chips,