Qualcomm on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona unveiled single, dual, and quad-core versions of its next-generation Snapdragon processors based on the 28-nm-scale Krait architecture.

As part of its expanded offerings for embedded market segments, chip giant Intel Corp is shipping quad- and dual-core processors based on its high-k, metal gate transistor formula and manufactured on ...

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, ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...

It's getting more likely that an iMac refresh is within sight, and Apple may have plans to use both dual-core and quad-core chips in the new systems. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world ...

As the Consumer Electronic Show gets into full swing in Las Vegas, chip giant Intel Corp. unveiled three more quad-core processors, including what the company says is the first to carry the Intel Core ...

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 ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

We’ve assumed that an Amazon tablet is coming. Amazon’s CEO has hinted that an Amazon tablet is coming. All we need now are the finer details, and they’re starting to trickle in. According to an ...

Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, the company said. Laptops today contain either dual-core or quad-core processors, and offering ...