The aerospace industry requires new technology for the handling and display of more complex information, while the adoption of multi-core processors has brought disruptive technology changes. This ...

Dual-processor machines have been a constant part of the Mac landscape since Apple put a pair of 500MHz G4 chips into a Power Mac back in 2000. But that landscape shifted Wednesday when Apple ...

Dual-core processors--those with two processing engines--hit the mainstream in 2005. For years, chipmakers improved chips by increasing clock speeds. But physics and engineering problems put a stop to ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

Dual-core technology is here. It’s mainstream, and it’s now part of the enterprise server ecosystem. IBM and Sun Microsystems led the charge with dual-core versions of their Power5 and UltraSparc ...