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 recent press launch of a dual-core consumer x86 processor has polarised minds, press time and thinking from technologists, as everyone beings to come to terms with the way processor ...

Austin, Tex.&#151 AMD says its new Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor delivers the performance of a multi-core processor with the same 939-pin micro PGA type packaging as the single-core Athlon 64 CPU.

Intel may have come out with dual-core processors a few days earlier, but Advanced Micro Devices says it is bringing out dual-core chips to the market where it counts. The Sunnyvale, California-based ...

LONDON — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has announced that the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor is available at a price of between $537 and $1001 in 1000 unit quantities. Dual-core processors are the ...

AMD has released four brand new 65 nanometer dual core microprocessors for the mainstream desktop market. The new parts are: Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6 GHz $301* Athlon 64 X2 4800+ 2.5 GHz $271* Athlon 64 ...

Benchmark Summary: In all but one synthetic benchmark, the Athlon 64 X2 3800+ outperformed the 2.8GHz Pentium D 820 processor. The Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processor's performance was strongest in our ...

Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all). Hot Hardware have a review and it's performance is ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has started shipping a version of its dual-core Athlon 64 X2 processor that is considerably cheaper than the company’s previous dual-core chips, it announced on ...

Chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. plans to ship a dual-core version of its 64-bit Athlon 64 microprocessor for desktop and mobile PCs during the second half of this year — but the chips won’t be ...

Recent processors released by AMD using their 90nm production process, including the Venice core which powers a load of mass-market low-to-high-end CPUs with the Athlon 64 moniker and the dual-core ...