In financial terms, because dual-core chips are the latest technology, there's less of a price differential between an off-the-shelf box and a system you can piece together yourself than is the case ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

At an Intel-sponsored developer conference next week, one of the big debates will be, "what exactly is a dual-core processor?" The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will provide details about a host ...

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 ...

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, ...

The dual-core Qorivva 32-bit MPC5676R MCU targets automotive applications — looking to play a role in greener, more-fuel-efficient vehicles. The 180-MHz Power Architecture MCU has 6 Mbytes of flash, ...

The Phoenix VPF2 COTS DSP-processing card integrates a Freescale dual-core MPC8641D processor, two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, and a VXS-based serial interconnect fabric on a 6U VME64/VITA 41 card.

Can you remember when you received your first computer or device containing a CPU with more than one main processing core on the die? We’re guessing for many of you it was probably some time around ...

IBM last week unveiled details about a dual-core version of its PowerPC processor at the Power Everywhere forum in Tokyo. Big Blue is targeting entry-level servers, clustered environments and the ...