Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Can you remember when you received your first computer or device containing a CPU with more than one main processing core on the die? We’re guessing for many of you it was probably some time around ...

There’s a new hierarchy emerging in the ultraportable PC space: Today’s netbooks tend to have 10 inch or smaller screens, cost less than $400, and have Intel Atom or VIA Nano processors. The new class ...

To give you the information you need to make an informed decision, we've corralled all the processor specs into a comprehensive buyer's guide. As in last year's guide, we've covered both the Intel and ...

On the eve of the 40th anniversary of Moore’s Law, Intel Corp. today said that OEMs Alienware, Dell and Velocity Micro are now selling desktop PCs and workstations using its first dual-core ...

With its first-generation prototypes performing well, the company forges ahead on dual-core designs for late 2006 and beyond. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. had analysts, ...

Ambler, Pa.—MEN Micro, Inc. released a 6U, CompactPCI single board computer (SBC) equipped with either one or two Intel Xeon dual core processors, providing up to four CPU cores with a frequency of ...

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 ...

Lakefield will be available in Core i5-L16G7 and Core i3-L13G4 variants, each utilizing Intel’s Hybrid Technology. “Hybrid” means it uses both a 10nm Sunny Cove core for heavy workloads and four ...

Like that Simpsons episode where the director's commentary for The Postman is just Kevin Costner repeatedly apologizing into his microphone, there needs to be a monument to the Intel Pentium 4 ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.