Thanks to more powerful CPUs, we've jumped from barely being able to display an image on a computer screen to Netflix, video chat, streaming, and increasingly lifelike vide… See more

CPU manufacturingis complicated. The important point is that each CPU has silicon (either one piece or several) that houses billions of microscopic transistors. As we alluded to e… See more

Now, let's look at the silicon itself. The diagram above is from an Intel white paper published in 2014 about the company's CPU architecture for the Core i7-4770S. This is just … See more

Now that we've looked at what's going on underneath the hood of a CPU, let's look at how it integrates with the rest of your PC. The CPU sits in what's called a socket on your PC's … See more