What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. had analysts, ...

Intel’s mainstream quad-core chip, the 2.4GHz Core 2 Quad Q6600, arrived yesterday with slightly less fanfare than I had expected. I guessed last Friday that the chipmaker would offer the Q6600 chip ...

The new Core 2 Quad Q6600 desktop processor, which is being demonstrated at CES 2007 in Las Vegas, accelerates the performance of high-end games, multithreaded applications, Vista Home Premium and ...

From the moment you decide that your current Intel processor just isn’t up to par and start investigating an upgrade to your current laptop or desktop, you’re often bombarded with technical jargon.

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 ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...

Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 CPUs have been around for a few years now, but some buyers still get stumped whenever they attempt to build their own systems and are forced to choose among the ...