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Dual core - a lesson from history?
Blog We all know that dual-core computing has been a smashing success, because Intel and friends delight in telling us so. Indeed, lots and lots of dual core processors have been sold. However, I doubt many people sat down and decided that a dual-core...
[October 22, 2007, 0:21]
Six new AMD processors for business due Q3
Blog The planned processors form a triple-play of dual, triple and quad-core processors. The dual-core Athlon X2 B23 runs at 2.9GHz and a has 2MB onboard memory. The triple-core Phenom II X3 B73 is 2.8GHz with 7.5MB and the B71 is 2.6GHz with 7.5MB.
[January 5, 2009, 12:06]
Parallel processing or perish?
Blog Somebody wanted to engage me in a discussion on parallel processing and dual/quad core technologies. This means of course that if two streams of a multi-threaded app are trying to write to and/or read from memory at times that do not happily...
[August 16, 2007, 21:25]
End of the show...
Blog With the emphasis on low power, surely a single core 45nm processor would find a healthy market in notebooks, where dual-core is really over-egging the pudding. It's all dual core or quad core, but are there really no single core devices?
[April 18, 2007, 21:06]
Lenovo takes ThinkPads to the Edge
Blog Intel Core 2 Duo CULV and standard dual-core processors are also available. There's a choice of Neo single and dual-core CPUs or Turion dual-core models. ThinkPad W510: a Core i7-based mobile workstation.
[January 5, 2010, 7:30]
Tech Talk - Skype
Blog If you have a multi-processor system, that doesn't qualify as a "Dual Core", no matter how many processors you have. They made a completely arbitrary and autocratic decision that they will actually check the specific camera and CPU you have, and if...
[December 5, 2007, 9:33]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog There is the mandatory demonstration -- in this case, the Montecito dual-core Itanium 2 -- and given the sense of relief and pride that emanates from various people afterwards, you can't help but wonder how close to the wire that one came.
[September 10, 2004, 18:30]
HP Mini 2140 - I Get To Try One!
Blog They say it is because the 2140 BIOS is shipped with Dual Core support enabled, even though it only has a single Atom. Check the BIOS.yup, Dual Core enabled. It seems the Dual Core option is enabled to support Hyperthreading in the Atom CPU.
[July 1, 2009, 15:41]
Latest updates from Dell
Blog These include dual- or quad-core Core 2 CPUs, up to 16GB of DDR3 1066MHz RAM, dual hard drives (RAID 0 or 1) plus an optical drive, and a choice of LCD display panels. Dell's Latitude 2100 might help change that, as it's been designed from the...
[September 8, 2009, 15:31]
Windows 7 Needs Liposuction
Blog On a dual core with 4 GB of RAM its a fine OS. I've tested Win7 in Beta and what turned out to be the RTM. Faster and much more reliable than Visaster. It did a number of things I was impressed with but there is no compelling reason to run it.
[September 15, 2009, 6:29]
Free stuff! Our Xmas competition is closing!
Blog (An Intel dual-core processor and motherboard bundle is on offer) Our Xmas competition is winding up this week so don't miss your chance to enter. You can find the details of all the brilliant prizes here.
[January 9, 2007, 16:53]
The game's up for Vista
Blog Resplendent with around 80 Quad core PCs and Dual Core notebooks, Gamebase is every school-boy's dream, and actually most fully-grown-should-have-better-things-to-do-with-their-time-big-boys dream too.
[May 16, 2008, 14:52]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog They're dual-core. At issue are some Inspirons equipped with Intel Core Duo T2300E processors — respectable chips with much to recommend them. If you look at the Intel cheat sheet for the Core Duo, you'll see that it's the only one that lacks...
[August 11, 2006, 19:15]
Apple buys processor company, opens whole new world of speculation
Blog PA Semi's last big announcement - a dual-core, 2GHz, 25watt processor with lots and lots of integrated IO, networking and other delights - was more than a year ago, so it's safe to say that there'll be other products ready to go round about now.
[April 23, 2008, 11:23]
Atom power hits town
Blog Was a bit startled when the system reported two CPUs, as the dual-core Atom is still Very Secret, but then, headslap. Two threads, one core. We've got our first Atom machine in. Full benchmarks and other details later, but.it's interesting.
[May 30, 2008, 17:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The faster bus is, of course, nicked from Montecito - the forthcoming and widely-trailed dual-core Itanium that is due to appear in a blaze of glory (and a whirr of fans) later this year. It’s being bigged up something rotten, with Intel claiming...
[July 22, 2005, 18:45]
What to expect from Intel’s ‘Parallel Universe’ Software Conference 2009
Blog Today dual-core and quad-core processors are the norm from the server to the desktop. You might cite a certain episode involving Franz Ferdinand von Österreich-Esten, or how about its status as the birthplace of Mozart, Arnold Schwarzenegger and...
[April 20, 2009, 6:06]
Bare-Metal VM Farms Part2
Blog That limits it to the Core 2 Duo or Quad CPUs. AMD multi-core compatibility is still being worked on. The Server application has to be running on Windows Server 2008 running on just about anything, no dual or quad CPU necessary.
[September 3, 2009, 4:42]
Ion-toting Eee 1201N to hit UK in January
Blog The 1201N will also be one of the first netbooks to include Intel's new dual-core Atom 330, which should boost the processing power of small, cheap subnotebooks. Asus has confirmed its long-rumoured Eee PC 1201N, the first in the company's line of...
[November 19, 2009, 11:55]
Excellent high definition streaming of Obama inauguration
Blog Hardware is a very standard HP desktop running a dual core something at around 2GHz, no special graphics, and taking around 50 percent of both cores. If you're in the UK and have a connection capable of around 4Mbps, have a go at Sky News' HD...
[January 20, 2009, 15:29]
