At the heart of every Snapdragon X processor lies Qualcomm’s custom Oryon CPU architecture, a complete design that represents years of development following the company’s acquisition of Nuvia. Unlike ...

AMD has officially released its long-anticipated dual-core processors to systems builders and key OEMs. The launch of AMD's Opteron 200 and 800 Series processors comes just days after Intel released ...

Multicore processing boosts performance and energy efficiency in many coding situations. Bare-metal algorithms further enhance these benefits. Many embedded firmware engineers have seemingly not yet ...

The big picture: Intel may have long discontinued its Pentium and Celeron processor lineups, but the company still caters to the entry-level market with the affordable "Intel Processor" series. Last ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today demonstrated its first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin office. Dual-core processors, which are set to hit the market next year, offer improved performance ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Intel Corp.’s dual-core strategy for mobile processors became a little clearer this week at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, but questions remain about the company’s plans ...

When Qualcomm launched its Snapdragon X series processors, it didn't just release a single chip but gave us an entire range of ARM-based CPUs designed to challenge the traditional x86 dominance in ...