Less than 24 hours after Intel erased Advanced Micro Devices’ status as the sole provider of 64-bit chips by announcing its own, AMD demonstrated a dual-core Athlon 64 processor, touting multiple core ...

The company says its new chips, which will sell at a premium price, will provide better performance and lower power consumption. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers ...

The chip enthusiast community has been waiting on this one since last year, and AMD finally pulled the trigger today. The ...

Extreme gamers won't be getting AMD's latest dual core technology for a while, according to company executive Marty Seyer, who believes the market isn't ready for the advanced technology. The chip ...

Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. So-called 'multithreaded applications' benefit from an additional CPU core because subroutines can be allocated to different ...

Still smarting from having to swallow its pride over the success of AMD's 32/64 hybrid technology (AMD64), Intel appears once again to be on the short end of AMD's technological stick -- this time, ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD said Tuesday it demonstrated its own dual-core technology, using a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant DL585 server powered by four dual-core AMD Opteron chips, for a group of ...

Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel’s offering, is aimed at ...

Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) and AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processors Are Well-suited for Existing Channel Hardware and Only Require BIOS Update TAIPEI, TAIWAN-May 31, 2005-Following the ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. today demonstrated its first dual-core microprocessors at its Austin office. Dual-core processors, which are set to hit the market next year, offer improved performance ...