Multi-core processing is a means to break through the limitations of clock frequency scaling to deliver increased performance. Two or more cores in a processor allows for more performance and reduced ...

"Businesses face huge challenges when it comes to managing global mobile workforces, network security, mountains of complex information, and sprawling networks of communications, and computing devices ...

Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel’s offering, is aimed at ...

It's hard to overemphasize how far computers have come and how they have transformed just about every aspect of our lives. From rudimentary devices like toasters to cutting-edge devices like ...

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 ...

[Deni’s note: I asked Jim Bagley, senior analyst with Storage Strategies NOW to write this blog on parellelization of applications.] During one week in late July, a team at Purdue University built one ...

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 ...

Companies will have to rewrite some of their legacy code if they want to take full advantage of the move to multi-core computing. Software code designed to run on single-core systems will have to be ...

RAF FAIRFORD, England—BAE Systems is to flight-test a Eurofighter Typhoon later this year equipped with multi-core computer processors as part of ongoing efforts to redesign the fighter’s complex ...

Intel Celeron G6900 was recently added to the Intel Alder Lake family alongside several other processors. The CPU, sporting just two cores, is the most entry-level option to be found in Intel’s ...