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 ...

Intel Monday officially launched Penryn-based dual-core processors for notebooks, but also indicated that users expecting quad-core mobile processors may have to wait until issues surrounding power ...

Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, the company said. Laptops today contain either dual-core or quad-core processors, and offering ...

Chinese state-owned consumer electronics company Tongfang has joined hands with chipmaker Loongson, UOS developer Tongxin, and CLP Technology to achieve a new leap in the performance of the Tongfang ...

PC vendors are launching more and more computers with dual- and quad-core processors, promising users that the expensive machines can juggle more applications at work or play better games at home. But ...

The Core 2 Quad is just one of three additional Intel quad-core processors to hit the market today. The announcement was made at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This makes a total of nine ...

Intel’s 13th-generation desktop CPU refresh is interesting because processors throughout the lineup are picking up extra clusters of four or eight E-cores, significantly improving how they handle ...

Apple promised its newest 13-inch MacBook Pro would deliver faster performance than the previous model. But we weren’t expecting to be up to 83% faster! That’s the kind of speed increase you’re ...

I am but a newbie when it comes to hardware and would love to learn about multiprocessors from the greats! What I know of quad core (or any processor for that matter) is limited, but if anyone could ...

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.

The rumors were true: After a brief Apple Store outage that started at about 6am EST, Apple has officially released its new line of iMac all-in-one desktop computers. As expected, the refreshed PCs ...