Frustrated by staring at the hourglass icon as soon as you try to work on more than three programs at once, especially when you’re working with digital media? AMD today announced the immediate ...

It not’s surprising right after its 40th birthday, AMD’s trying to recall the better days: The Athlon II X2 makes an official sequel out of the Athlon name for ...

New AMD Athlon II X2 245 and 240 Processors Designed to Efficiently Handle Today’s Mainstream Computing Needs -- Dual-core processors deliver the right mix of power efficiency and performance at very ...

Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel’s offering, is aimed at ...

Intel's current dual-core processors, and their next-gen 65nm dual-Presler core processors, require a traditional Northbridge with an integrated memory controller. This means that any core-to-core ...

AMD's latest low-cost processors have gone live, slotting into the Athlon II series, and each promises a decent balance of price, heat output and performance. The new range kicks off from the AMD ...

After years, the chip giant is set to reclaim the desktop performance crown from crosstown rival Advanced Micro Devices with the launch of Conroe, its much-anticipated next-generation processor. In a ...

Over the past few months, the rumour mill has been suggesting that AMD will introduce a new series of 45nm Athlon processors in June '09 dubbed Athlon II - available in dual-core, tri-core and ...

Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. So-called 'multithreaded applications' benefit from an additional CPU core because subroutines can be allocated to different ...