Just wanted to get the hive's perspective on this - I have a customer who has a couple of systems used exclusively for CAD work. They are dual Xeons, 2.4 GHz, purchased about 2 years ago, with a Gig ...

TL;DR: AMD's upcoming Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor offers enhanced performance with 16 cores, 32 threads, and a groundbreaking ...

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 ...

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, ...

Should a dual-core processor count as one chip or two? IBM Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) provided two very different answers to that question Thursday as the two companies unveiled ...

The Lenovo ThinkPad X100e thin and light business notebook has been shipping for a few months now. But while Lenovo promised that there would eventually be models with both single core and dual core ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

ASUS has refreshed its premium Zenbook Duo laptop during CES 2026. The 2026 Zenbook Duo arrives with various upgrades over ...

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 ...

So I got GTA4 recently. My system is a C2D 1.8ghz, 4gb ram, 8800GT 512mb. At 1680x1050 with settings mostly on low (shadows turned off), it's *playable*. However when I get into chases with cops it ...