The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip giant on Tuesday rolled out the industry's first four-core processors, including three quad-core Xeon 5300 processors and the Core 2 Extreme Quad-Core Processor ...

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, ...

Six-core processors have finally overtaken quad-core chips as the most popular type of CPU for PC gamers. Valve’s recently released Steam Hardware Survey for March has revealed that the period of ...

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 ...

Intel sets the stage for a showdown with AMD's upcoming Barcelona, releasing a Xeon chip for high-end servers with multiple processors Intel plans to unveil a version of its Xeon processor on ...

Apple promised its newest 13-inch MacBook Pro would deliver faster performance than the previous model. But we weren’t expecting to be up to 83% faster! That’s the kind of speed increase you’re ...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two 64-bit, multicore QorIQ™ P5 family control plane processors delivering 2.4 GHz of single threaded performance per core. The new quad-core QorIQ P5040 and ...

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are taking different paths to the quad-core market, but some believe it’s only a matter of time before their roads converge. Intel got a six-month jump on ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors? Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ...

The rumors were true: After a brief Apple Store outage that started at about 6am EST, Apple has officially released its new line of iMac all-in-one desktop computers. As expected, the refreshed PCs ...

I am but a newbie when it comes to hardware and would love to learn about multiprocessors from the greats! What I know of quad core (or any processor for that matter) is limited, but if anyone could ...