A CPU chip that contains two distinct processing units that work in parallel. IBM introduced dual core Power 4 CPUs in 2000, followed by Sun and HP in 2004 and x86-based Pentiums in 2005.

Intel's nearly 10-year-old Skylake-based Core i7-6700HQ quad-core mobile CPU was barely any slower than the dual 32-core chips, featuring a single precision score of 1,113 points, half-precision ...

At February 2025's International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), researchers unveiled a new MEGA.mini architecture. Inspired by Arm’s celebrated "big.LITTLE" paradigm, this universal ...

The 9950X3D is officially priced at $699 in the US ($50 over the 9950X). This is surprisingly good value, given what you are ...

Apple launches its new M3 Ultra processor: up to 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 512GB unified RAM: essentially 2 x M3 Max SoCs ...

leaving the desktop non-X3D part with dual CCDs and up to 96MB (2 x 48MB) L3 cache. Continue reading: AMD's next-gen Zen 6 'Medusa Ridge' desktop CPUs: 12/24/32-core variants, up to 128MB L3 cache ...

Right now that’s Espressif’s ESP32-P4: a powerful application processor with dual-core 400 MHz and a single-core low power 40 MHz RISC-V processors. Interestingly it doesn’t appear to have ...

Processors with similar names could be anything from brand new to 15-plus years old. For example, Core i5 processors from 2008 have the same brand name as Core i5 processors from 2023. This won’t be a ...

Fire up your rig with the best CPU for gaming. More cores, more clocks, more of everything that matters. The best gaming CPU is one of the most hotly contested titles in the industry, changing ...