All the big talk in the consumer processor world is of dual-core designs. Two processors on one die, sharing or having exclusive caches, is an extension of multi-processing, multi-processing being a ...

Another month passes and another couple of processors are released by either Intel or AMD. The last two months have been rather busy on the CPU front. Both rivals launched their own dual-core, ...

AMD has led the 64-bit desktop processor field up to now with the Athlon 64 -- although there is, as yet, no shipping 64-bit Windows operating system, which is necessary to make the most of a 64-bit ...

With the launch of its 2-GHz Pentium 4 processor today, Intel Corp., as expected, cut prices on the rest of its Pentium 4 family, as well as many of its other processors. Intel also introduced a ...