Microprocessors are the beating heart of your computer, and cutting edge technical advances continue to drive the technology forward. From chiplet tech and nanoprocessing to AI chips and more, Tom's Hardware is the industry standard for CPU news and reviews.
The latest reviews Need a new CPU? Tom's Hardware benchmarks, analyzes, and rates the hottest new silicon.
Latest about CPUs
All of today's desktop CPU benchmarks compared, including Intel's 13th-Gen Core series and AMD's Ryzen Zen 4 and Threadripper.
The mysterious Intel Core Ultra 7 260K has surfaced in some prebuilt gaming PCs on Newegg, despite no official mention of the chip from Intel.
AMD's Venice-X CPUs launch in the second half of 2027, bringing 3D V-Cache back to the data center after four years on the sidelines.
Premium MEXT offloads cold memory pages to flash storage and serves them up with a predictive AI model.
Nvidia and Arm have new “agentic CPUs,” a title that high-ranking AMD employees are pushing back against with the launch of Zen 6 EPYC Venice CPUs.
AMD has pulled back the curtain on its Zen 6 microarchitecture. We deep-dive into the differences between Zen 5 and 6, as well as detail our first benchmarks of AMD’s Venice CPUs.
Deals The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is down to an all-time low price of $399.95, with the 9850X3D down to $419.99.
A known Intel leaker claims that Intel's next-generation processors will top out at 5.1 GHz if the CPU core temperatures aren't kept below 90°C.
