Tossed around as hot cupcakes, these buzzwords certainly make anyone scratch their heads. However, there lie several important differences between these two processor types. The line between high end ...

Ready or not, quad-core processors are coming to smartphones and tablets. In fact, the next mobile gadget you buy -- particularly if it's running Google's Android operating system -- will likely pack ...

Since early 2011, NVIDIA has been on a tear in the mobile market, jumping ahead of Qualcomm and Texas Instruments. NVIDIA's Tegra 2 dual core processor was everywhere at CES 2011 in January, powering ...

You listed video editing/compression last, so I assume that you won't be doing it much. I voted taco, but would say get the highest speed dual core that fits your budget. If you're really concerned ...

One of the big mobile buzzwords of 2011 was “dual-core.” Dual-core processors became the standard for high-end smartphones, starting with the LG Optimus 2X in January. In 2012, however, it will be all ...

The chip maker MediaTek pioneered the concept of with the launch of the Helio X20 processor. Lately, the company added another deca-core chipset to the lineup with the introduction of the Helio X30.

Multicore CPUs first appeared on the desktop and laptop PC platforms around 2005. Though Intel currently has the lion's share of different x86/x86-64 multicore processor models, AMD beat Intel to ...

If I have a computer with a 2.66GHz quad-core processor, will it run my software and games faster than my 3.2GHz single-core Pentium 4? Yes, quad-core CPUs are generally much faster than single-core ...

Only two of the top 20 systems on Amazon’s best-selling notebook list have a quad-core processor, and less than a quarter of all notebooks listed on Newegg have more than two cores. This has been true ...

Our creative director Aurich Lawson is building a PC to power a custom arcade cabinet, and he was having trouble picking a processor. Not because he didn’t know what he needed, but because he was ...

Although computers with quad-core processors are typically faster than single-core models, the difference in speed depends on a number of factors. On a very busy system and under ideal conditions, a ...

The advent of the smartphone brought with it a dramatic shift in how people work, communicate, and play. Of course, the primary use of the ‘cellphone’ is still to make and receive phone calls, but our ...