Intel on Monday released a dual-core Atom N550 processor, which the company says will bring improved application and graphics performance to netbooks while retaining long battery life. The Atom N550 ...

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 ...

Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. So-called 'multithreaded applications' benefit from an additional CPU core because subroutines can be allocated to different ...

Intel's Atom chips are well known for being the low-cost alternative to "better" processors on the market, and up until now, it's been a general rule of thumb that their presence in the mobile ...

Intel has spent millions making their "Core" brand synonymous with high performance processing. In these days of the Core Duo, Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, and Core 2 Extreme, it’s pretty easy to find a ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 18, 2005 – Intel Corporation announced that computer manufacturers Alienware*, Dell* and Velocity Micro* today started selling desktop PCs and workstations based on Intel’s ...

Intel will introduce its brand new Core 2 Duo line of dual-core, 64-bit processor chips Thursday. The first of these next-generation processors to hit the marketplace has been code-named "Conroe." The ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. At an Intel-sponsored developer conference next week ...

Intel Corp.’s first dual-core Xeon server processor is around 50 percent more powerful than its single-core predecessor, but it will cost around 40 percent more than that chip, company executives said ...

Intel Takes Popular Laptops to ‘Extreme’ with First-Ever Extreme Edition Mobile Processor; Adds New Desktop Chip; High-Performing Notebook and Desktop Processors Arrive Near First Anniversary of Award ...

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 ...

As we mentioned before, this new Pentium utilizes Socket-775, which Intel has used for the past several years now. At first glance, this processor looks identical to the Core 2 Duo, which isn’t ...