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 ...

Everyone has heard that mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell. Well, the central processing unit (CPU) is the powerhouse of the computer. It's the brain, and without a CPU in your computer, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computing is part of everything we do. Computing drives innovation in engineering, business, entertainment, education, and the sciences—and it provides solutions to complex, challenging problems of ...

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 ...