Whether you're upgrading your desktop PC or building a new one, choosing the right processor is the most crucial and complex choice you will make. Let's simplify it! Here's how to make sense of AMD's ...

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform 3.0 helps developers fully leverage the processing power of multi-core x86 chips RapidMind is announcing on Monday software intended to help developers ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

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 ...

Mobile CPU maker ARM has announced a new multi-core processor aimed at netbooks and cellphones. The new "Sparrow" processors is based on the company's Cortex A9 multi-core architecture and is based on ...

BLU has a growing reputation for admirable devices that cost very little, and its latest handset looks to continue that trend. The BLU Life One goes on sale at the end of this week, on July 17th and ...

Personally, I'd take at least a processor that has 1 core and hyperthreading or 2 cores. Reason being that I find single core machines to be rather annoying when you start doing more than a couple of ...

With the aim of simplifying multi-processor software development and enhancing interoperability between its boards, signal processing and sensor I/O, Radstone has introduced its AXIS integrated ...

This microchip with 1,000 processor cores was designed by graduate students in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. The chip is thought to be fastest designed in a ...