We’re all familiar with the competitive drive to buy or build the biggest and the best. It’s human nature and the reason we have clichés such as “keeping up with the Jones’.” In the computer processor ...

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 ...

MangoPi’s latest single-board computer is a Raspberry Pi Zero clone called the MangoPi MQ Quad. It features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor, 1GB of RAM, a microSD card reader, USB Type-C and mini ...

Morefine has introduced the H1 mini PC, a compact system built around AMD’s new Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 processor. The device ...

Processors boasting lower power and more transistors from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are being added to PCs from Hewlett-Packard and Gateway. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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, ...

Advanced Micro Devices on Tuesday announced a new range of desktop microprocessors, including its first Athlon triple-core processors. AMD launched four Athlon II X3 triple-core processors as part of ...