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 ...

Intel Monday officially launched Penryn-based dual-core processors for notebooks, but also indicated that users expecting quad-core mobile processors may have to wait until issues surrounding power ...

Advanced Micro Devices will put triple-core processors into laptops to fill a power and performance gap, the company said. Laptops today contain either dual-core or quad-core processors, and offering ...

Chinese state-owned consumer electronics company Tongfang has joined hands with chipmaker Loongson, UOS developer Tongxin, and CLP Technology to achieve a new leap in the performance of the Tongfang ...

PC vendors are launching more and more computers with dual- and quad-core processors, promising users that the expensive machines can juggle more applications at work or play better games at home. But ...

With the inclusion of two 512MB GeForce Go 8800GTX graphics cards, the Black-Hawk XR5 will be the first laptop to feature such graphical power. Along with a 17-inch screen, Core 2 Quad processor and ...

Intel is planning to stop branding its Celeron and Pentium CPUs next year. With this announcement, the chipmaker wants to release a budget-friendly processor that can compete with the entry-level CPUs ...

Apple promised its newest 13-inch MacBook Pro would deliver faster performance than the previous model. But we weren’t expecting to be up to 83% faster! That’s the kind of speed increase you’re ...

Intel is bringing the power of its 13th-gen desktop CPUs down to laptops — all 24 cores worth. At CES today, Intel unveiled the Core i9-13980HX, the pinnacle of its mobile lineup. It features 24 cores ...

I am but a newbie when it comes to hardware and would love to learn about multiprocessors from the greats! What I know of quad core (or any processor for that matter) is limited, but if anyone could ...

Acer on Monday started shipping desktops that are among the first PCs available with Intel’s third-generaton Core processors, code-named Ivy Bridge. Acer’s new desktops have quad-core Core i5 and i7 ...