Under normal circumstances, the CPU in your desktop PC generates modest amounts of heat; a smart fan on top of the CPU runs just fast enough to keep it cool. At this speed, you barely hear the fan.

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

The term “central processing unit” (CPU) has popularly applied to a number of different parts of a computer over the past few decades, but it most commonly denotes the microprocessor chip that acts as ...