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 ...

If you've been sitting on a fence about whether to go dual-core, dither no more. The prices of dual-core processors have come way down in the past year, and performance has jumped. Here's a guide to ...

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, ...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces the QorIQ® P1022 dual-core processor with advanced power management capabilities to support energy-efficient designs for embedded applications. The low-power, ...

The benefits of dual-core will be obvious to builders who love to multitask. With a dual-processor system installed, it means there&'s a second processor core to share the load. For instance, if one ...

But what will dual cores do for your smartphone apps? Get ready: your smartphone is about to get a lot smarter. 2011 promises to be the year of dual-core smartphones - and may even usher in the age of ...

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 ...

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 ...

If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...

Just wanted to get the hive's perspective on this - I have a customer who has a couple of systems used exclusively for CAD work. They are dual Xeons, 2.4 GHz, purchased about 2 years ago, with a Gig ...

Smartphones are on the verge of becoming more powerful, with chip makers readying dual-core chips that could accelerate multimedia and application performance on handheld devices. Most smartphones are ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Thursday was set to introduce the fist six models of its Opteron microprocessor to feature two processing engines, or cores, on a single chip. As previously reported by ...