Multicore CPUs first appeared on the desktop and laptop PC platforms around 2005. Though Intel currently has the lion's share of different x86/x86-64 multicore processor models, AMD beat Intel to ...

To stay competitive, Intel is taking familiar steps with its Kentsfield, Clovertown, and Tigeron quad-core server and PC chips. Photo: Intel four-cores Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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, ...

Mini Review Core 2 Quad Q9650 3.0GHz is a high-end Processor based on the 45nm Core micro-architecture. It offers 4 Physical Cores (4 Logical), clocked at 3.0Hz and 12MB of L2 Cache. Among its many ...

HP launched nine quad-core servers, including pedestal, rack-mount and blade models. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based company said the new products promise up to a 50 percent performance gain compared with ...

As one would expect, the Phenom carries over the K8's 64-bit processing but expands upon the ISA to include what it terms as SSE4a. Note, though, that SSE4a only contains two new instructions (MOVNTSS ...

Summarising our thoughts on the Phenom 9600 first, AMD has seen Intel's desktop processor line-up transform from the ageing, slow Pentium to the Core-derived Duo and, a year ago, the Core 2 Quad.

I'm going to put together a simple system to do some virtualization/server consolidation on my home network. (I've gone from an embarrassing number of boxes to like 3 'servers' now.) From here I want ...

Mini Review APU A10-7850K Quad-Core is a performance CPU based on the 28nm, Steamroller architecture. It offers 4 Physical Cores (4 Logical), initially clocked at 3.7GHz, which may go up to 4.0GHz and ...

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 ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

Apple's refreshed MacBook Air is considerably more powerful than its predecessor, initial benchmarks reveal, with the Core i5 version of the latest models offering a significant performance boost over ...