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 ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 show their multiprocessing mettle in our dual-core and quad-core performance tests They say you can never be too young, or too rich. Or too handsome or too ...

Intel today unveiled an experimental 48-core chip that will be distributed to about 100 researchers to help develop programming models and software. Intel Corp. is honing its sights on many-core chips ...

Something to look forward to: Intel will launch brand new Arrow Lake-S desktop CPUs later this month. Ahead of its release, the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K has appeared on the PassMark benchmark ...

Intel is honing its sights on many-core chips that are far more powerful than today’s dual and quad-core processors. As expected, Intel took a big step in that direction today by unveiling a 48-core ...