The three new CPUs are the Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition, the eight-core X6 1065T processor, as well as the entry-level quad-core Phenom II X4 840. AMD says the Phenom X6 1065T is its fastest sub-100 ...

Multicore Central Processing Units (CPU) are becoming the standard for the current era of processors through the significant level of performance that CPUs offer. This includes multiple multicore ...

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 ...

As each new generation of computer processors arrives with a larger number of computing cores, computer scientists grapple with how best to make use of this proliferation of parallel power. Now ...

Real-world performance for Valve's living room PC might vary.

The SEAforth-24 multicore processor promises to raise the performance-per-watt bar in embedded applications that need high speed and low power. The processor features 24 cores, each executing one high ...

With the advent of multicore processors such as the Intel Core Duo, which is now commonplace in PCs, software developers must deal with a new wrinkle — getting software to be processed across multiple ...

Yesterday I met with AMD and Microsoft to see a demo of Virtual Server running on an AMD-based PC. The software, Microsoft’s Virtual Server R2 running an as-yet unreleased service pack, takes ...