[UPDATE: Are triple-core Phenom processors just failed quad-core units? I've been asked this question several times today and to get a definitive answer I approached Scott Carroll, AMD Public ...

Today AMD announces 45nm quad-core Opteron processors, codenamed "Shanghai" designed to deliver superior virtualization experience, performance and power efficiency. The touted highlights of these new ...

The Socket F Opteron processors, which AMD had previously signaled would be launched during LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, are the first for AMD to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 ...

We also feel comfortable saying that, from a strictly fanboy perspective, it's pretty awesome. The Spider release will coincide with AMD's launch of its Phenom quad-core desktop processor. That's no ...

New Quad FX Platform gives Advanced Micro Devices an answer to Intel's quad-core PC chip, but in a piecemeal fashion. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent ...

Chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices introduces energy-efficient quad-core Opteron processors "designed to help data center managers" focused on power consumption and virtualization. Brooke Crothers ...

Six-core processors have finally overtaken quad-core chips as the most popular type of CPU for PC gamers. Valve’s recently released Steam Hardware Survey for March has revealed that the period of ...

I have been trying to build a god box for a while. I have many of my components together except for MB, CPU, Memory, and Video. The original plan called for a dually mb w/ SLI capability. I would buy ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices upcoming Barcelona processor will sport floating-point performance 42 percent higher than Intel's current top-of-the line CPU, the Xeon X5355 also known ...

Click to viewWe just got the chance to play around with AMD’s newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There’s a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks ...

Digitimes is reporting that Intel is about to pop a series of cheap quad core processors (Q8000) to slap back at AMD’s budget triple core offerings. The first will be the Core 2 Quad 8200, which’ll ...