Intel Corp. plans to launch the third model of its four-core processor in January, continuing its efforts to stay ahead of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on the next-generation processor family. Intel ...

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We have a little more than a week to wait for Intel to release the new Core 2 range of CPUs. These are based on a new processor architecture, which, instead of just pumping up the CPU’s frequency, ...

The world’s largest chip maker slashed prices on a handful of microprocessors after the company’s battle to retake market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) took a turn for the worse. Intel ...

In today's news, Intel has released a new sibling of the 45nm family of Core 2 Quad processors: the Q9300 "Yorkfield" processor, which comes in at 2.5 GHz with a 1333 MHz front side bus.

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We’re all familiar with the competitive drive to buy or build the biggest and the best. It’s human nature and the reason we have clichés such as “keeping up with the Jones’.” In the computer processor ...

In a recent hardware deep-dive, we took a look at how CPU cores and cache impacted gaming performance. To do that, we used three Intel Core processors and compared their core scaling performance, ...