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 ...

There appears to be no performance penalty for using dual-core processors instead of two single-core processors with the same clock speed, Macworld Lab has concluded after preliminary testing of the ...

Selecting a processor for an embedded multimedia application is a complex endeavor. It involves a thorough analysis of the processor's core architecture and peripheral set, a solid understanding of ...

Although about the same size, the forthcoming dual-core Opteron will be up to 55 percent faster than today's single-core chips, AMD says. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Qualcomm on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona unveiled single, dual, and quad-core versions of its next-generation Snapdragon processors based on the 28-nm-scale Krait architecture.

The benefits of dual-core will be obvious to builders who love to multitask. With a dual-processor system installed, it means there&'s a second processor core to share the load. For instance, if one ...