Researcher created a leaderboard of the slowest x86 instructions – record of 198 billion cycles in 62 seconds
Instruction latency analysis usually helps figure out how long low-level commands take to run on a processor, with the goal of optimizing either the architecture itself or applications built for specific hardware. Hardware researcher Christopher...
January Steam Survey: RDNA 4 debuts in GPU charts as Intel gains ground
Many expected January's Steam Hardware Survey to mark the moment AMD finally overtakes Intel in CPU market share. But January 2026 became the first month since August when Intel gained ground while AMD's share declined....