Seems like we were just getting used to the Core 2 Duo chips, and now Intel has gone and released its first quad core processor, code-named Kentsfield and officially called Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Toms ...

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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 ...

To stay competitive, Intel is taking familiar steps with its Kentsfield, Clovertown, and Tigeron quad-core server and PC chips. Photo: Intel four-cores Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

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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, ...

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.

Although computers with quad-core processors are typically faster than single-core models, the difference in speed depends on a number of factors. On a very busy system and under ideal conditions, a ...

Today we're discussing quad-core processors, namely how relevant they are in 2019. The last time we covered this specific topic was back in 2017, however since then the quad-core CPU discussion has ...