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 ...

Intel will cap off a turnaround year on Tuesday with the expected introduction of its first quad-core processors, beating rival Advanced Micro Devices to the punch by several months. Originally ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week’s announcement of the Asus Transformer Prime marks the start of a new era for Android tablets. Aside from the Prime’s sleek design and PC-like transformation potential, the product will be ...

Intel Corp. says that it has shipped more than 1 million of its quad-core Xeon 5300 microprocessors since introducing them last November, meeting a goal announced by company executives earlier this ...

Sun has released eight servers using the quad-core Opteron chip, giving AMD's processor a bigger foothold in the quad-core server market Sun on Tuesday released eight servers powered by AMD’s new quad ...

AMD drops quad-core chips making 8-core EPYC the new standard Zen 5 EPYC 4005 series targets small businesses and IT providers Upgraded memory speed I/O lanes and security features across all SKUs AMD ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

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 ...