As Ebay wisely notes in its buying guide, "the CPU will limit how fast anything can occur in the system." That's an important fact to remember when choosing a processor for your computer. Although ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

you've probably seen somewhere the definition of computer science as the study of computers and that probably wasn't particularly helpful because what does it mean to study a computer to get to a ...

The size of your hard drive doesn't affect how fast your processor runs or how quickly your computer is able to access the Internet. However, the hard drive's size plays a role in overall computer ...

But what is a GPU? What are they good for? Join us for a layman's overview.A graphics processing unit (aka a GPU, graphics ...

This article tries to bring a little more clarity to what is a computer-implemented invention —and what is an obvious use of a computer —by reviewing some of the Alice v CLS Bank oral arguments.

As the march of Moore's Law slows, so chip designers have had to find new ways of delivering the regular leaps in computer processing power we've become accustomed to. One of the more recent trends is ...