Tossed around as hot cupcakes, these buzzwords certainly make anyone scratch their heads. However, there lie several important differences between these two processor types. The line between high end ...

Since early 2011, NVIDIA has been on a tear in the mobile market, jumping ahead of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. NVIDIA's Tegra 2 dual core processor was everywhere at CES 2011 in January, powering ...

You listed video editing/compression last, so I assume that you won't be doing it much. I voted taco, but would say get the highest speed dual core that fits your budget. If you're really concerned ...

The chip maker MediaTek pioneered the concept of with the launch of the Helio X20 processor. Lately, the company added another deca-core chipset to the lineup with the introduction of the Helio X30.

Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

A new report has emerged suggesting that Apple's iPhone suppliers are producing as many as 150,000 iPhone 5 units per day suggesting the fabled device's launch may not be far off. reuters As Apple ...

The advent of the smartphone brought with it a dramatic shift in how people work, communicate, and play. Of course, the primary use of the ‘cellphone’ is still to make and receive phone calls, but our ...

So, you're in the market for a new computer, and you've come up with some impressive looking specifications, particularly to do with the processor. A friend on your left tells you to get a processor ...

Although computers with quad-core processors are typically faster than single-core models, the difference in speed depends on a number of factors. On a very busy system and under ideal conditions, a ...

As AMD finally celebrates its symbolic victory over last year's Intel dual-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processor, Intel and Apple are moving on with quad-core 3 GHz Core 2 XEON processors. Apple, with its ...

Smart phones with quad-core processors are always faster than a single core powered handset. Today, we use our phones for checking e-mails, browsing web, gaming, listening to music and watching videos ...

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