Multi-core processing is a means to break through the limitations of clock frequency scaling to deliver increased performance. Two or more cores in a processor allows for more performance and reduced ...

Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors? Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ...

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, ...

Microsoft’s new director of scalable and multicore computing speaks out about the potential for this technology in software and hardware. Supercomputing expert Dan Reed, who saw the birth of the Web ...

If various reports are anything to go by, Intel is about to expand its share of the best processors with the upcoming Arrow Lake. As a result, benchmark leaks are almost a daily occurrence at this ...

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Last week, Apple announced its third-generation silicon for the Mac, suitably named M3. Unlike previous launches, it unveiled the entire M3 family all at once, pulling the cover off M3, M3 Pro, and M3 ...

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