Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing ...

What clock speed, core capabilities, and heat dispersion techniques should use for your CPU? Here's everything you need to know about central processing units.

Computer processors, or chips, operate in a similar fashion. A processor provides the instructions that multiple applications and processes need to perform their jobs.

Computer engineering is a broad field that sits in between the hardware of electrical engineering and the software of computer science. When computer engineers design hardware, they focus on what the ...