Huxley Dunsay of Retro Roadshow joins us in the PCWorld studio to show off the BeBox, a 90s dual-CPU PC with a custom operating system.

Since 2005, computer CPU chip makers have increasingly adopted the use of multiple cores to increase performance. Each core runs a separate computing task, so the computer gets more work done. Before ...

David Courtright of MIPS Technologies examines what cores need formulti-CPU designs and examines how the MIPS32 M4K4 core has beendesigned specifically for these SOCs. The use of multiple CPUs in SOC ...

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform 3.0 helps developers fully leverage the processing power of multi-core x86 chips RapidMind is announcing on Monday software intended to help developers ...

Personally, I'd take at least a processor that has 1 core and hyperthreading or 2 cores. Reason being that I find single core machines to be rather annoying when you start doing more than a couple of ...

You could call 2005 the year of the dual-core processor. IBM has had dual-core server ships for years, but 2005 will be the year that dual-core reaches the consumer market. All the major processor ...

Playing chess, predicting the weather and simulating nuclear explosions are highly CPU-intensive applications. IBM’s latest Deep Blue chess master, for example, is a 32-node IBM RS/6000 SP ...

Today, Samsung announced its newest processors, the Exynos ModAP. This new chip fuses an LTE-A modem with a quad-core processor, built on a 28nm process. Designed with efficiency in mind, Samsung’s ...

I have a 1.1GHz T-Bird, on an Asus A7A266 mobo, 128MB PC266 ram. When I assembled the thing (some time ago), at the bios I just selected the 1100MHz option on the CPU speed and left the CPU multiple ...

At the launch of new line of Pentium 4 processors, Intel discussed the role dual-and multi-core processors will play in the digital home. Hi, I look after product development for CBS Interactive in ...

With the aim of simplifying multi-processor software development and enhancing interoperability between its boards, signal processing and sensor I/O, Radstone has introduced its AXIS integrated ...