Just five years ago, debating the merits of a 6-core CPU versus an 8-core model wasn’t possible. We were all stuck with 4-core chips at a consumer level—to break past that barrier, you had to pay ...

OWC swaps in an 8-core Intel CPU on the Mac Pro in place of the stock 6-core chip and cites up to a 30 percent performance boost. Brooke Crothers Former CNET contributor Brooke Crothers writes about ...

One question left over from the Tiger Lake launch was whether these new chips would be limited to just four cores or not. The answer? No. Eight core chips haven't been formally announced yet, but they ...

Most of Banana Pi’s single-board computers are powered by ARM-based processors. But the upcoming Banana Pi BPI-F3 has a RISC-V processor instead. The company says the SpacemiT RISC-V K1 processor ...

Announced in November 2024, the Dimensity 8350 is a high-performance mobile chipset from MediaTek, featuring an 8-core CPU with up to 3.35GHz maximum frequency and a Mali-G615 MP6 GPU for visual ...

HP, of Palo Alto, Calif. this week unveiled the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 as part of a wider initiative to help customers transform their standalone data centers into virtual infrastructures. "Our ...

Qualcomm launched the Snapdragon 8 Elite processor back in October, and now we are waiting for a more affordable variant expected to be called the Snapdragon 8s Elite. However, it seems there’s an ...