Electronic Design

Single/Dual Core Processors Power Next-Gen Networks

Debuting as the industry's most scalable MIPS64 dual- and single-core processors, the OCTEON CN31XX and CN30XX family targets emerging IPv4 and IPv6 networks. The processors integrate hardware ...
Houston Chronicle

What Is the Difference in Speed in Quad Core & Single Core Processors?

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 ...
CNX Software

Linux 6.18 LTS release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.18 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), which will likely become the next LTS kernel: So I'll ...
Network World

Shift to multicore processors inevitable, but enterprises face challenges

Buying multicore servers raises two new questions for enterprises: How do you avoid punitive software licensing, and which applications need multicore processors? Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and ...
XDA Developers on MSN

3 reasons single-core CPU performance is still important

Multi-core optimization has allowed modern processors to brute force their way through heavier workloads with parallelization ...
CNET

Are slow dual-core CPUs better than fast single-core CPUs?

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 ...