Both CPUs and GPUs are processors, and sometimes you only need a CPU. So, what's the difference between these two?
At that time, many software titles – especially games – were developed with a specific machine in mind and were tied to the specific clock frequency of the CPU to function properly.
Inside every modern CPU since the Intel Pentium fdiv bug, assembly instructions aren’t a one-to-one mapping to what the CPU actually does. Inside the CPU, there is a decoder that turns assembly ...
AMD has released patches for a microprocessor vulnerability that could allow an attacker to load malicious microcode.