What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. had analysts, ...

In context: For many DIY PC enthusiasts, dual-core desktop CPUs may appear as remnants of a bygone era, but both Intel and AMD persist in offering entry-level processors equipped with just a couple of ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Intel's new flagship Nova Lake-S desktop CPUs are going to be chewing a chunk of power according to new rumors, with the dual compute tiles (52 cores) ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today demonstrated its first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin office. Dual-core processors, which are set to hit the market next year, offer improved performance ...

Extra processing power also lets users multitask more effectively. For example, one core could be used for surfing the Web, while the second core is handling an anti-virus scan. (Processor affinity ...

The Core Ultra 9 285K arrived with a thud. It’s an interesting, and sometimes very impressive, processor, but it’s not necessarily a good one. Stacked up against some of the best processors, the Core ...

You can’t tell the difference between a dual-processor Power Mac G5 and the new dual CPU, dual core Power Mac G5 Quad from looking. Your software can’t tell the difference, either. But if you could ...

While much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced Tuesday at a conference in ...

AMD has shared the first official results for its 256-core EPYC Venice CPU, saying it beats Nvidia's Vera by 3.3x in a ...

A couple of days ago, I wrote an article about my reasons for choosing modern hardware instead of old server parts going forward. In fact, I’ve already started using my repertoire of SBCs, mini-PCs, ...