In financial terms, because dual-core chips are the latest technology, there's less of a price differential between an off-the-shelf box and a system you can piece together yourself than is the case ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today demonstrated its first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin office. Dual-core processors, which are set to hit the market next year, offer improved performance ...

The big picture: Intel may have long discontinued its Pentium and Celeron processor lineups, but the company still caters to the entry-level market with the affordable "Intel Processor" series. Last ...

I'm pretty sure there are no dual-core 32-bit cpus. Pentium D's are 64-bit enabled, as are (obviously) Athlon64-X2's.

Intel, last year, announced that it was ending the Pentium and Celeron brandings for laptops and notebooks. Interestingly, the company may be planning to go a similar route on desktops too. In case ...

While much has been made of efforts by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and Intel Corp. to bring dual-core processors to PCs and servers, Freescale Semiconductor Inc. announced Tuesday at a conference in ...