Intel and AMD threw programmers a curve ball when they forsook faster clock speeds for multicore chips, but Snow Leopard introduces real technology to help compensate. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Without a radical change in the way much of it is written, software, sadly, just can’t go much faster anymore. Speed improvements that typically came from faster processors with more transistors have ...

Without a radical change in the way much of it is written, software, sadly, just can’t go much faster anymore. Speed improvements that typically came from faster processors with more transistors have ...

In reviewing CPU and server benchmarks, you’ve undoubtedly noticed that testing covers both single-core and multi-core performance. Here’s the difference. In terms of raw performance, both are equally ...