Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

Sun has released eight servers using the quad-core Opteron chip, giving AMD's processor a bigger foothold in the quad-core server market Sun on Tuesday released eight servers powered by AMD’s new quad ...

Both chip vendors have spewed forth a blizzard of announcements, though no actual quad-core microprocessors have yet shipped. Intel disclosed at its late-September developer forum that it's giving its ...

The Socket F Opteron processors, which AMD had previously signaled would be launched during LinuxWorld in San Francisco this week, are the first for AMD to add virtualization acceleration and DDR2 ...

New Quad FX Platform gives Advanced Micro Devices an answer to Intel's quad-core PC chip, but in a piecemeal fashion. Tom Krazit writes about the ever-expanding world of Google, as the most prominent ...

In the latest x86-based server processor war between Intel and AMD, both companies are on the offensive. Last week, Intel preemptively launched the first strike with its Xeon 7300 series, and Monday, ...

Computex 2025 was light on major launches from AMD, Intel and Nvidia, so we welcomed news about Threadripper 9000, which uses ...

Intel’s quad-core Xeon offerings have grown with the addition of two more energy-efficient chips. The chipmaker introduced two low-voltage processors last week – the quad-core L5320 and L5310. Expect ...

AMD has launched a few of its Ryzen 7000 series "Zen 4" CPUs now, but the mid-range Ryzen 3 7300X processor has now been teased and man, it sounds quite tasty. The upcoming AMD Ryzen 3 7300X should ...