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, ...

Dual-processor machines have been a constant part of the Mac landscape since Apple put a pair of 500MHz G4 chips into a Power Mac back in 2000. But that landscape shifted Wednesday when Apple ...

BOSTON – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) shed a little more light on its previously disclosed plans for dual-core processors Monday, announcing that it has completed its design for dual-core server ...

Should a dual-core processor count as one chip or two? IBM Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) provided two very different answers to that question Thursday as the two companies unveiled ...

Dual-core processors--those with two processing engines--hit the mainstream in 2005. For years, chipmakers improved chips by increasing clock speeds. But physics and engineering problems put a stop to ...

You could call 2005 the year of the dual-core processor. IBM has had dual-core server ships for years, but 2005 will be the year that dual-core reaches the consumer market. All the major processor ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has demonstrated the company’s first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin, Texas, office, the company said Tuesday. Dual-core processors, set to hit the market ...

HP, IBM, Rackable Systems and MPC last week announced upgrades of their respective servers using Intel’s newest Xeon processors. The Intel Xeon 5100 – codenamed Woodcrest – delivers as much as 125% ...

There appears to be no performance penalty for using dual-core processors instead of two single-core processors with the same clock speed, Macworld Lab has concluded after preliminary testing of the ...