From the CPU’s perspective, a thread (short for “thread of execution”), is merely an ordered sequence of instructions that tell the computer what to do. In most of my articles on Ars and in my book, I ...

Hyper-Threading is one of those concepts that's been around a long time, and which everyone takes for granted. Despite that, relatively few enthusiasts really understand how it works or what the point ...

A friend of mine was harping on about it recently and wouldn't listen when I said it won't help much. I've never used it, and never used something like it. The idea that "random programmer" on the ...

You are probably accustomed to the idea that your smartphone can run more than one app at a time. Even if you are only used to seeing just one app in the foreground, you will have noticed that some ...

The System process can be viewed as a special kind of process that hosts threads that only run in kernel mode. Its related file name is ntoskrnl.exe and it is located in C:\Windows\System32\ folder.

AMD's next-gen Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series "Storm Peak" CPU has been teased, packing 64 cores and 128 threads of Zen 4 processing power on the new 5nm process node at TSMC. A new entry for a chip ...