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

AMD is opening the champers after its six-core AMD Opteron processor based system was named as the world's most powerful supercomputer.

Nothing incredible in terms of design, but it’s an impressively cheap way to get quad-core in your PC.

AMD and Intel today announced an antitrust settlement that will see Intel pay its arch rival US$1.25bn. The agreement also brings to a close all ongoing legal wrangles between the two firms, including patent disputes..

Dell has launched the Inspiron Zino HD overseas, a mini desktop PC that could just give Apple's Mac Mini a run for its money

Nvidia has confirmed that its already much-maligned Fermi GPU based graphics cards won't be seeing the light of day in 2009.

The New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has announced it is launching an anti-trust investigation into Intel after allegations that the chip giant abused its market position.

Will AMD blow its lead again in graphics? An analysis of the current state of play in the race for processor and graphics superiority

AMD/ATI and its partners made quite a splash with the recent release of the 5 series GPUs, and is creating a lot of excitement about what future iterations of the cards will be able to do

Prophecy is a hazardous art when it comes to computers. We do know what's coming to the PC in the near future however, so read on to see the year ahead

People are still willing to queue up in the middle of the night to buy the first few copies of Windows 7

The end of Moore's law may happen sooner than we first thought, according to two physicists who have predicted the end of rapid computing advancement.

Eight new processors aimed at the low end of the market

Chip giant AMD will launch its Congo platform for ultrathin notebooks at the end of October or the beginning of November, according to reports on Asian IT news site Digitimes.

Intel's legal eagles are suing AMD in America as part of its defence in an antitrust case it has already lost in Europe.

The AMD versus Intel fight is going for a rematch in the US courts, and it appears that Intel is getting mean right from the start..

Intel’s three new CPUs promise Core i7 power in an economical and efficient package. We put them through their paces to see whether small really is beautiful

While Intel is rolling out new designs, AMD's focus is on getting the most out of its existing Phenom II process. The AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black edition is just what the doctor ordered.

NICS, the US National Institute for Computational Sciences has just upgraded its Cray XT5 supercomputer called Kraken. It's so powerful, it puts out petaFLOPS of peak power

Can you imagine a time when computers didn't have GPUs? Here are graphics technologies that helped take computing out of the lab and into the hands of consumers and professionals