An interesting thread of reasoning emerged at several different spots during the Research@Intel Day yesterday. The thread started with a passing mention, during CTO Justin Rattner’s introductory ...

I was meeting with a new customer right before the holidays and part of the conversation was that they were very unhappy with the performance of their blade system in a virtualized environment. They ...

Fixing the problem of the CPU being Stuck at low clock speed in Windows requires changes to the Power Management and Processor State settings, along with identifying software conflicts as detailed ...

Understanding how to manage power settings in Windows 10 can greatly enhance productivity, especially in a business ...

Your motherboard, and by extension, BIOS, also has a lot of control over how your CPU performs. After being frustrated for months thinking my CPU was maxed out, I played around with these BIOS ...

Tech Power Up has released a new version of its CPU power management software for Windows, making available Throttlestop 8.30 to download and install. This latest version introduces two new mini mode ...

When running resource-intensive applications, you may notice unexplained drops in your CPU speed. These drops are often caused by CPU throttling, a power-saving feature in Windows in which the CPU ...

Processor power consumption is a hot topic today (no pun intended). Consumers' appetites for sophisticated portable electronic devices are strong. But consumers want it all: they want feature-packed ...

I did a motherboard swap, then reversed it as the motherboard was flaky. Okay, been there a hundred times. Only this time, Win7 took more exception than usual. After the swap, on the flaky board, it ...

Though still just in beta, Windows 7 is already accumulating kudos around the industry (or the blogosphere, at least) as being faster and more stable than Vista with Service Pack 1. The developers at ...

The University of Michigan developed a low power chip for cubic millimeter sensors in 2009. It was built in 180 micron lithography process so the chip could theoretically be reduced in size by about ...