The personal computer industry is about to undergo a major metamorphosis, due in large part to the recent efforts of Intel and AMD. For the last few decades, mainstream desktop processor manufacturers ...

Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel’s offering, is aimed at ...

Intel may have come out with dual-core processors a few days earlier, but Advanced Micro Devices says it is bringing out dual-core chips to the market where it counts. The Sunnyvale, California-based ...

LONDON — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has announced that the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor is available at a price of between $537 and $1001 in 1000 unit quantities. Dual-core processors are the ...

Austin, Tex.&#151 AMD says its new Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor delivers the performance of a multi-core processor with the same 939-pin micro PGA type packaging as the single-core Athlon 64 CPU.

Intel's recent press launch of a dual-core consumer x86 processor has polarised minds, press time and thinking from technologists, as everyone beings to come to terms with the way processor ...

Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. So-called 'multithreaded applications' benefit from an additional CPU core because subroutines can be allocated to different ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has started shipping a version of its dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processor that is considerably cheaper than the company’s previous dual-core chips, it announced on ...

Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all). Hot Hardware have a review and it's performance is ...

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to ship a dual-core version of its 64-bit Athlon 64 microprocessor for desktop and mobile PCs during the second half of this year — but the chips won’t be ...

Intel's current dual-core processors, and their next-gen 65nm dual-Presler core processors, require a traditional Northbridge with an integrated memory controller. This means that any core-to-core ...