Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming six-core Phenom II X6 processors for desktops are already showing up in online retail stores prior to the chips’ official launch later this month. Online retailer ...

Intel is preparing six-core chips for high-end desktops and servers for release in the first half of this year, the company said Wednesday. The six-core chips will be based on the company’s latest ...

Intel on Wednesday confirmed that it would ship the six-core Xeon processor in the second half of this year, putting to rest rumors about the processor’s actual ship date. Speculation about the ...

Ever since Intel launched the Core i7 back in 2008, it has pursued a fairly consistent core allocation and marketing system. Intel's top-end mainstream parts are quad-cores with Hyper-Threading ...

Which could result in a much bigger Ryzen family.

Six-core processors have finally overtaken quad-core chips as the most popular type of CPU for PC gamers. Valve’s recently released Steam Hardware Survey for March has revealed that the period of ...

The 3.33GHz Core i7-980X, formerly codenamed Gulftown, is Santa Clara, Calif.-based Intel's first six-core processor for client PCs and will reportedly be priced at $999, the same price tag currently ...

The quad-core chips that have sat atop the microprocessor heap for the past two years are about to start being replaced by bigger, burlier six-core processor technology. In a keynote address at Intel ...

Advanced Micro Devices is trying to beat Intel on price with its latest six-core desktop Phenom II X6 processors that were unveiled today. AMD is shipping two X6 processors that are substantially less ...

Intel's Dunnington chip will be part of the Xeon MP 7000 series of processors and will allow a four-processor server to have up to 24 cores Intel on Wednesday confirmed that it would ship the six-core ...