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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Both AMD and Intel have posted Web pages in which they extol the virtues of their respective dual-core devices. That makes timely sense, since most industry watchers agree that 2006 is the year ...

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 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 ...

LONDON — An evaluation program for dual-core Pentium D, Xeon and Itanium processors from Intel Corp., began Monday (Aug. 15), and the company said it has brought forward the availability of dual-core, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Intel plans to release its first dual-core server processors this year instead of next, and it will employ an unusual maneuver to catch up to rival Advanced Micro Devices in the key competitive area.

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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 ...