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 ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...

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 ...

Qualcomm on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona unveiled single, dual, and quad-core versions of its next-generation Snapdragon processors based on the 28-nm-scale Krait architecture.

So, you're in the market for a new computer, and you've come up with some impressive looking specifications, particularly to do with the processor. A friend on your left tells you to get a processor ...

Chip maker Freescale plans to launch a new line of low power, ARM-based chips in the coming months. The i.MX 6Solo, i.MX 6Dual, and i.MX 6Quad will all be based on ARM Cortex-A9 architecture, but as ...

Editors' note: This article originally posted on April 8, 2012, and was updated on December 19, 2012. Open up your wallet today and there are no fewer than five smartphones you can buy running on quad ...

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 ...

Update November 28, 2016: A couple of early benchmarks for the dual-core Core i3 7350K have appeared on the Geekbench database showing performance on par with a quad-core Intel Core i5 and an ...