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Dual-core chips will not share cache
News The dual-core chips that Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. AMD's dual-core chips are due in the second half of 2005 as well. A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a...
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
ARM aims to put dual-core chips in mobiles
News Dual-core chips, like the IBM Power 4 for servers, are a rapidly growing trend in the semiconductor market. Dual-core chips, however, cost less and take up less space in computers. The first multi-core chips are expected to be based on the design...
[October 21, 2003, 10:50]
Intel untangles dual-core chips
News Intel chief operating officer Paul Otellini unveiled the company’s first dual-core processors, together with a new virtualisation technology, to kick off his opening keynote at the Intel Developer Forum in San Jose on Tuesday.
[September 17, 2003, 0:10]
Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD
Talkback One point that almost all AMD vs Intel reviews are missing is that the Intel processors require more expensive DDR2 memory while the AMD chips use DDR memory. Using the memory types and speeds listed in the article, the memory for the Intel systems...
[November 4, 2005, 20:47]
Stratus launches first fault-tolerant dual-core servers
News Fault-tolerant system supplier Stratus Technologies launched its first system using dual-core processors on Tuesday, claiming it will offer 25 percent performance improvements over its current line. The ftServer W Series 5700 comes in a small...
[January 24, 2006, 14:00]
Dual-core not quite two for the price of one
Leader The real reason dual-core chips are here isn't because of user demand, but because this is the only technical way to keep Moore's Law going without meltdown. If you were wondering when dual-core processors were going to enter the mainstream, the...
[August 1, 2005, 13:50]
Dual-core servers review
Reviews No new servers have been announced yet, but Intel-based servers designed to take the latest dual-core processors can also be fitted with quad-core chips. Socket compatibility should also make upgrading from dual-core to quad-core a simple matter of...
[February 26, 2007, 15:21]
IBM reveals dual-core Power details
News The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX, which is commonly found in Macintosh computers running G5 processors. That means that either side of the chip can be powered down to a state IBM calls "doze" while the other core...
[July 11, 2005, 16:30]
Intel unveils dual-core details
News The same timeframe will see the transition to 65-nanometre architectures: by 2008, the company predicted, performance of the chips will be 10 times that of today's single-core Pentium 4. Intel fleshed out its dual-core processor strategy on Tuesday...
[December 15, 2004, 15:00]
VMware takes dual-core licensing plunge
News IBM has a clearly stated policy - all software on mainframes and high-end Power systems will continue to be priced to reflect the power of the systems so a dual-core system will cost around twice the cost of a single core, a company spokesman said...
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
Dell to launch dual-core Xeon servers
Talkback If Intel has not made any core adjustments, that bring a massive boost in performance, a 2.80 GHZ dual core xeon will still not even be as fast as the Dual core opteron 265/865 opteron (1.8Ggz) which AMD has had out for 6 months now.
[September 30, 2005, 4:02]
IBM gives Power5 servers dual-core boost
News By the end of the year, though, IBM will ship the system with eight dual-core processors. The dual-core models will run at a speed of 1.5GHz, somewhat slower than the 1.9GHz of the single-core models, but overall performance will increase up to 55...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
AMD launches dual-core Phenom, Athlon CPUs
News AMD will boast about dual-core architecture and efficiency achievable through 45nm technology," said Richard Marsden, sales director at RealTime Distribution, a UK distributor which supplies AMD chips to system builders.
[June 2, 2009, 16:41]
Dual-core Itanium chip gets airing
News Montecito, Intel's first dual-core chip, will contain nearly two billion transistors but will run cooler than its existing relatives. Montecito, however, will sport a thermal ceiling, or maximum power output, of 100W, lower than the 130W ceiling of...
[February 7, 2005, 8:10]
Drilling into dual core
News The transition will see two or more processor cores placed on a single die, a strategy first put into practice by mass-market chipmakers this spring; by the end of next year, nearly all the chips sold by Intel and AMD will be dual-core.
[September 28, 2005, 17:25]
Dual cores mean double trouble
Leader The news of impending dual-core chips is an exciting one, raising as it does the prospect of doing more jobs faster, better and eventually even cheaper than before. Dual-core Itaniums will follow, with multi-core chips not far behind.
[February 8, 2005, 11:10]
Intel to pip AMD at the dual-core post
News Intel plans to release dual-core desktop chips for computers later this month in a move that seems calculated to prevent rival AMD from claiming a first. At the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei, Taiwan, Abhi Talwalkar, co-general manager of the...
[April 12, 2005, 8:45]
AMD readies dual-core Athlon 64
News AMD plans to release its dual-core desktop chips in Taiwan on Tuesday, and manufacturers such as HP, Acer and Lenovo will discuss how they will use them in their product lines. Dual-core chips, which contain two separate processing cores, can run...
[May 31, 2005, 9:15]
Opteron upgrades ready for launch
News Intel has numerous dual-core and multicore processor designs under way, but its first dual-core server chips won't be released until later this year. AMD plans to announce faster new models of its dual-core Opteron processor on Monday, an attempt...
[September 26, 2005, 12:05]
Intel prepares dual-core demo
News Dual-core chips will likely be one of the highlights of the three-day conference, which takes place from 7 to 9 September in San Francisco. Dual-core chips' two processing cores increase performance without significantly increasing power consumption.
[September 2, 2004, 16:30]
