There's no question the channel is eager to get its hands on Advanced Micro Devices' first quad-core x86 microprocessor. Monday's belated launch of the long-awaited server chip code-named Barcelona ...

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 ...

Advanced Micro Devices in August will begin selling its quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors, models that answer Intel's current products but soon will face stiffer competition. The first ...

The Socket F Opteron processors, which AMD had previously signaled would be launched during LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, are the first for AMD to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 ...

Intel Corp. today announced shipping of its first quad core processor families, the highly anticipated Quad-Core Xeon 5300 for business and Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core for gamers. AMD was quick to ...

New Quad FX Platform gives Advanced Micro Devices an answer to Intel's quad-core PC chip, but in a piecemeal fashion. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent ...

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices introduces energy-efficient quad-core Opteron processors "designed to help data center managers" focused on power consumption and virtualization. Brooke Crothers ...

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 ...

I have been trying to build a god box for a while. I have many of my components together except for MB, CPU, Memory, and Video. The original plan called for a dually mb w/ SLI capability. I would buy ...

Click to viewWe just got the chance to play around with AMD’s newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There’s a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks ...

Digitimes is reporting that Intel is about to pop a series of cheap quad core processors (Q8000) to slap back at AMD’s budget triple core offerings. The first will be the Core 2 Quad 8200, which’ll ...