AMD, the chip giant, is bridging the gap between two and four core processors. Today AMD is releasing a batch of low priced, triple core processors. Given the announcement just a moment before Windows ...

Windows includes a feature allowing you to force the operating system to utilize only a portion of the computer's available processor cores. If you are a software developer, this allows you to see how ...

Microsoft claims to be “embracing silicon innovation” by restricting upcoming CPU architectures to Windows 10 only. In effect, the company is preventing people from running Windows 7 and 8.1 on new ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Antony reviews and covers the latest PC hardware and laptop technology This article is more than 9 years old. Earlier in 2016, ...

I have a piece of software that doesn't support Windows Server but it supports Windows 7 or 8. I want to build a 4 CPU (AMD Opteron 6000) system for this software to run its computational threads on.

Last year, Microsoft confirmed that it would restrict latest chips by AMD and Intel from running anything preceding Windows 10, and many wondered what would happen if their Kaby Lake or Ryzen-powered ...

The software giant tells organizations that they should update or virtualize their older machines to continue receiving security patches. It’s unclear how many organizations or machines are affected ...

Late last year, it was reported that Microsoft may halt support for newer processors and it looks like Microsoft has just made it official. According to a new ...