The worlds most popular CPU manufacturer, Intel, decided in 2008 to move on from their successful Pentium branding (the original Pentium chip debuted in 1993!) to Intel Core branding. Nehalem – 2008 – 1st generation Sandy Bridge – 2011 – 2nd generation Ivy Bridge – 2012 – 3rd generation Haswell Read more…
During the New Years holiday period in 2018, information about two serious CPU security vulnerabilities was leaked to the public. These issues were connected to a part of a microprocessor function called Speculative Execution. This function has been in processors for at least a couple of decades and is used Read more…
For over a decade, Apple has designed its silicon processors for use initially in their mobile devices and this has been expanded to other hardware over time. In April 2008, Apple acquired the company P.A. Semi which designed semiconductors. This allowed Apple to use this engineering workforce to assist with Read more…