Windows and macOS artificially throttle CPU speeds even when plugged in, but a simple 60-second power setting fix boosts performance 5-20%.

Microsoft plans to introduce a new power management feature called User Interaction-Aware CPU Power Management in Windows 11 version 25H2. This feature is designed to extend battery life on notebooks ...

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 ...

Laptop updates secretly drain 40% more power while you sleep, spiking electricity bills through CPU-intensive installations ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dialog Semiconductor Plc launched a new evaluation board for its recently introduced DA9034 IC that enables designers to configure designs based on Marvell PXA3xx application processors. The new ...

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 ...

Flex Power Modules, a US-based provider of advanced power conversion solutions, is partnering with Renesas to develop a new ...

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 ...