If you've been sitting on a fence about whether to go dual-core, dither no more. The prices of dual-core processors have come way down in the past year, and performance has jumped. Here's a guide to ...

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 ...

Current versions of Google’s Android operating system for smartphones make woeful use of their dual core processors, according to an Intel executive. Poor implementation of threading technology by the ...

Dell last week started upgrading its servers with dual-core processors. The company upgraded the 1850, 2800 and 2850 PowerEdge servers, and the 1855 blade server.-The new dual-core processors combine ...

Dual-core processors--those with two processing engines--hit the mainstream in 2005. For years, chipmakers improved chips by increasing clock speeds. But physics and engineering problems put a stop to ...

BOSTON – Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) shed a little more light on its previously disclosed plans for dual-core processors Monday, announcing that it has completed its design for dual-core server ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has demonstrated the company’s first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin, Texas, office, the company said Tuesday. Dual-core processors, set to hit the market ...

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Advanced Micro Devices plans to release a dual-core processor for desktops in the second half of 2005, stepping up its schedule to better compete with Intel. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company has ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Intel launched its first dual-core server processor Monday, a Xeon that makes up some ground lost to rival AMD but it's due to be superseded by a more powerful model in just a few ...

Sounds like a thread from 2002 ... I'm trying to confirm whether a CPU in an HP DL380G4 running Solaris X86 is dual core or HyperThreading, this makes a difference of about $16,000 in Oracle licenses.

Much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers. Yesterday, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. revealed details of a dual-core ...