Boffins from Arizona State University have demonstrated a microrefrigerator which effectively cools a PC system by targeting specific chip hot spots.

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Intel has released a short animated video illustrating the process by which sand is turned into silicon and a CPU. But the over-simplicity has us leaning towards AMD's older and more interesting video

When it comes to platforms, AMD's senior VP likes to think his firm has better offerings than its arch-rival Intel, and says this fall will be "very exciting" for his company.

Forget Phenom, AMD's next big desktop chip will let CPU cores do a tricky multi-and-single thread dance for more performance.

Intel's Netburst might have become a retrospective embarrassment for the firm, but CPUs based on the best-forgotten architecture are apparently still hitting sky-high clock speeds.