In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

If we take the uniprocessor concept of multiple ALUs a step further andadd separate instruction pipelines, we get the idea behind symmetricmulti-threading (SMT). Referred to as hyper-threading by ...

If you own a modern computer, it is probably several times faster than the one that landed the first lunar module on the moon. Modern personal computers consist of many components that work together ...