Advanced Micro Devices is expected to show off a dual-core processor for desktops at its headquarters Wednesday but is keeping tight-lipped about the details. The chip, code-named Toledo, will feature ...

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At least four things will be on the minds of many attendees at next week’s Computex trade show in Taiwan: the dual cores of Intel’s Pentium D processor and the dual cores of Advanced Micro Devices’ ...

The chipmaker said Monday that it will launch a pair of dual-core processors for high-end desktops during the second quarter. In doing so, Intel narrowed the time frame for when its first dual-core ...

10 months back I wrote that Intel would likely mop up the floor with AMD in the first battle of the dual-core desktop PC wars, fundamentally driven by the Pentium D 820's notable price-per-GHz ...

Advanced Micro Devices introduced its dual-core desktop chips in Taiwan on Tuesday, and manufacturers such as Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Lenovo Group have lined up to discuss how they will use the ...

The MV10 from Mavsloly is a compact desktop computer built using components normally found in full-size desktop towers. It ...

In short: It doesn't. We're talking orders of magnitude slower. There are others who can elaborate on what architectural differences cause this huge difference in performance, but a few things 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 ...

Desktop microprocessors enjoyed key advances in 2006. All but the low-end x86 chips migrated to dual-core, in which two processor cores are placed on the same piece of silicon -- in effect giving ...

Putting two cores on a chip will allow a computer to perform two tasks at once, or run specially tweaked applications faster. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...