With Windows 8's launch fast approaching, interest is growing in the devices that will run the new OS. A source claims that the first Intel-based Windows 8 tablets will be in stores in November. More...

US buyers of the Galaxy S III may be denied its new quad-core Exynos 4 Quad processor, as a Samsung executive is quoted as saying that US versions will be sold with Qualcomm Snapdragon chips instead. More...

Stephen Elop hits out at dual- and quad-core processors in smartphones, claiming that they offer nothing useful to end-users, and that they are little more than a drain on a device's battery. More...

Nokia has partnered with chipset manufacturer ST-Ericsson, who will be providing their dual-core NovaThor chipsets for future Nokia Windows Phones; meanwhile Qualcomm's WP reign ends More...

Intel will be releasing the highly anticipated dual-core Atom processor this quarter. The announcement comes after the chip maker had an over 400% profit rise for the first quarter this year compared to the same... More...

Not soon after there were some rumors that the company has told its resellers that supplies of iMacs will be constrained in the immediate future, we have another analyst speculating that new models of iMacs... More...

Having recently launching its first dual-core Celeron E1000 series CPU, E1200, Intel is ready to launch another family member with a faster core frequency in the second quarter of 2008, according to sources at motherboard... More...

Multi-core chips are sweeping the processor market and single cores are becoming harder and harder to find. This trend is about to go through the roof while prices plummet to the basement. With affordability as... More...

Advanced Micro Devices has notified its partners that starting from next Monday, the 8th of October, it plans to decrease the pricing of some of its dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 chips. The price corrections... More...

IBM is expected to push its next-generation Power6 dual-core processors to run at higher speeds, rather than following the Intel/AMD concept for high-end computing that packs more cores on a die. The new CPU will... More...

The unit price of AMD Turion 64 X2-based notebooks is about US$150 less than an Intel Core 2 Duo (Merom)-based notebook, according to product portfolios that notebook vendors have offered. AMD still has an edge... More...

No matter how advanced the technology is, sooner or later it will migrate to mainstream and even entry-level microprocessors. According to a report from an Asian web-site, AMD Sempron processors will acquire second core as... More...

Intel plans to add its dual-core Itanium 2 CPU line, dubbed "Montecito," to to its current Xeon 5100 series (codenamed Woodcrest) and Dempsey processor offerings on July 18, according to sources at Taiwan server makers.... More...

Advanced Micro Devices is going to fire back at Intel today in the enthusiast PC market. The Sunnyvale company will unveil a new socket for high-end computers today that will allow it to put two... More...

Thanks MrCobra for posting this in Back Page News area of our forums. What would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows... More...

ATI Technologies recently said at press-conference that in several month time the company's drivers for graphics cards would take advantage of dual-core microprocessors. The move will allow users of systems running chips with two engines... More...

IBM plans to unveil Tuesday a line of small- and midsize-business Unix servers based on its own dual-core Power5 processor. The new servers will use the IBM's existing Power5 as well as the... More...

AMD announced yesterday that they will be releasing 3 new 'dual-core' Opteron processors. Dubbed the 180, 280, and 880, these processors will each contain two 2.4Ghz cores; the first digit in the model number specifying... More...

Presenting at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM today formally introduced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, which could find its way into Apple Power Macs in the coming months.... More...

Intel's dual-core platform consists of two separate cores in individual dies packaged together using multi-chip packaging in a single chip, which is not a true dual-core solution, according to Henri Richard, senior vice president for... More...

First look: Two processors in one Athlon chip give performance extra oomph. Ready for the era of dual-core? You now have a choice of dual-core processors; and based on PC World tests,... More...

Advanced Micro Devices will launch the first dual-core version of its Athlon 64 desktop processor at Taiwan's Computex trade show on May 31. The AMD Athlon 64 X2 processor will be launched on the first... More...

Intel President Paul Otellini announced three second-generation dual-core processors on Thursday and said first-generation prototypes are faring well. In February, Intel said it was working on 15 dual-core chip designs, which combine... More...

Intel may have come out with dual-core processors a few days earlier, but Advanced Micro Devices says it is bringing out dual-core chips to the market where it counts. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based... More...

VIA Technologies today announced support for the latest dual-core AMD Opteron processors with its K8 series of core-logic chipsets. The VIA K8 series chipsets, including the new VIA K8T890, leverage VIA Hyper8 technology for high... More...

Advanced Micro Devices CEO Hector Ruiz said Wednesday during the company's first quarter fiscal 2005 conference call that the company's first server dual-core chips with two processing engines will be formally announced on the 21st... More...

Acer plans to announce in May an Aspire desktop PC based on Intel's dual-core Pentium D processor, the company confirmed Tuesday. "Currently, it's being planned for launch around [the] second half of May," said Stella... More...

Intel will move up the launch date of its dual-core series Pentium Extreme Edition 840 CPU and 955X chipset to the middle of this month, according to Taiwan motherboard makers. The dual-core products, which are... More...

Intel has begun volume shipments of the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, the company's first dual-core processor, a company executive said Monday. The chips are being shipped to hardware makers ahead of an official launch,... More...

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to launch new Opteron chips later this month that combine dual processing engines on a single slice of silicon, CNET News.com has learned. AMD will announce at... More...

There's a presentation slide that Intel recently sent us plotting time versus the performance of its processors and what tasks they've been designed to address. According to Intel, back in the days of its 486,... More...

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which originally was scheduled to launch its dual-core Opteron processor in the third quarter of this year, may advance the launch to the middle of the second quarter, according to sources... More...

Intel executives presented a detailed roadmap of the company's dual-core future at the Intel Developer Forum here on Tuesday, including plans for a processor that will now be called the "Pentium D." ... More...

Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. are jockeying for position as they prepare to roll out dual-core versions of their processors over the course of the year. At its developer forum next week in... More...

Advanced Micro Devices is expected to show off a dual-core processor for desktops at its headquarters Wednesday, but is keeping tight lipped about the details. The chip, code-named Toledo, will feature two... More...

Intel's code-named Smithfield dual-core desktop processors will be clocked at around 3.00GHz clock-speed and will support 64-bit capability, claims report at AnandTech web-site, however, the chips will not sport Hyper-Threading technology along with high-speed processor... More...

Intel Corp.'s decision to move to a multicore architecture for its next-generation CPUs is a recognition that the computer industry is facing an increasing power-management challenge in its chip designs, Intel CEO Craig Barrett said... More...

Microsoft has bucked most of the major software makers by agreeing to count multicore processors as a single chip in its product pricing schemes. Rightly recognizing an opportunity to boast, Microsoft today dedicated an entire... More...

Intel's first dual-core Xeon processor is scheduled to arrive in the first quarter of 2006, a company executive said Monday, meaning that a competing chip from rival Advanced Micro Devices will likely arrive several months... More...

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday detailed performance results for its forthcoming dual-core Opteron processor, showing a speed boost of 30 percent to 55 percent, compared with today's single-core models. In addition, AMD... More...

Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year. AMD on Tuesday will show... More...

As we all know Apple dropped support for Motorola's desktop processors, and chose to use IBM's processors for its next generation desktop PCs. This action was viewed by some analyst as a final blow... More...

On Monday AMD announced that they have completed the design for dual-core server and desktop processors. Dual-core server processors will ship in the middle of 2005. While dual-core desktop processors will ship in... More...

Intel Corporation may release dual-core Pentium 4 "Prescott" processors in late 2005, a report over Geek.com web-site claims. If the information is correct, the roadmap of the world's largest manufacturer of central processing units gets... More...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will release dual-core Opteron processors for servers and workstations in 2005, the same time frame that Intel Corp. plans for its first dual-core products, an AMD executive said Monday. The Direct... More...

Intel confirmed Friday that it cancelled the Tejas, Jayhawk and Tulsa microprocessors originally scheduled for the year 2005 launch. Now the company promises to deliver dual-core chips across all market segments next year. Intel claims... More...

Motorola is preparing a next-generation two-core G4-class PowerPC processor, the company will this week tell attendees of its annual Smart Networks Developer Conference, held in Disneyland Paris. The chip, as yet unnamed - at least... More...