In reviewing CPU and server benchmarks, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that testing covers both single-core and multi-core performance. Here’s the difference. In terms of raw performance, both are equally ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...

Sumitomo Electric Industries has developed a multi-core optical fiber (MCF) including 8 cores within in the standard 125-μm cladding suitable for optical interconnects, and realized an ...

Researchers at Sungkyunkwan Univ. & Kyungnam Univ. design a multi-core migration methodology and apply it to a real-world AUTOSAR-based engine ECU from HYUNDAI. “As multiple functions have been added ...

If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...