Q. I am looking to purchase a new computer, and I notice that many of them come with multiple core processor chips. This has me wondering how many core processor chips I really need in my desktop ...

We all think of the CPU as the "brains" of a computer, but what does that actually mean? What is going on inside with the billions of transistors that make your computer work? In this four-part series ...

We’re going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds have rapidly increased. So now that we’ve built and programmed our very own CPU, we’re going to take a step back and look at how CPU speeds ...