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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AMD has officially released its long-anticipated dual-core processors to systems builders and key OEMs. The launch of AMD's Opteron 200 and 800 Series processors comes just days after Intel released ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The advent of the first dual-core processors from Intel has sent independent software vendors scrambling to re-evaluate the licensing plans for their software. Both Oracle and VMware, an EMC company, ...