One of the most important parts of a processor is the buffer memory, also called the cache. What is it responsible for and how does it work?

The chip plugs into a socket on the computer's circuit board and communicates with memory, hard drives, display screens and other devices external to the CPU.

How does computer memory work? To truly understand how computer memory works, we must first examine the basic building blocks that make it possible: transistors and logic gates.

CPU Virtualization is a hardware feature found in all current AMD & Intel CPUs that allows a single processor to act as if it was multiple individual CPUs. This allows an operating system to ...

UCSB's new general-purpose quantum computer has separate CPU, memory, and programming electronics.

This article explains a Computer CPU Pipeline and how Pipelining improves CPU Performance by executing multiple instructions simultaneously.

This includes Basic Input/Output System or Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (BIOS or UEFI) firmware, model number, processor, memory, drive, graphics, OS version, and updates.