The word supercomputer gets thrown around quite a bit. The original Cray-1, for example, operated at about 150 MIPS and had about eight megabytes of memory. A modern Intel i7 CPU can hit almost ...

Plymouth started the pony car fashion, but it completely surrendered the spotlights to the Ford Mustang just two weeks after the Barracuda debuted on April 1, 1964. It took a long five-and-a-half ...

Graphics processing units (GPUs) were originally designed to perform the highly parallel computations required for graphics rendering. But over the last couple of years, they’ve proven to be powerful ...

A graphics card is a hardware component in most PCs that enables you to play games with realistic-looking effects. Two companies currently design and manufacture graphics cores: NVIDIA and ATI, and ...