In fact, according to AMD's spokesperson a relatively large proportion of the SysMark 2012 score is based on system performance rated during optical character recognition (OCR) and file compression ...

Time and again throughout my career I have ranted about the nonsense of benchmarking in all its forms. By now I have given up on the hope that business and investing will ever leave the practice ...

As FPGA makers have sought to capture more of the market traditionally owned by Asic vendors, a third category has emerged in the middle as a compromise between the two – structured Asics. And now one ...

There are numerous definitions of benchmarking but, in essence, it is learning from others through the comparative analysis of process performance, writes Ray Wilkinson, director of The Best Practice ...

Welcome to the real world. Not Middle Earth, Arrakis or Westeros, but the authentically mundane real world. This is where ordinary people sit in front of ordinary computers running everyday software, ...