Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday announced new Phenom chips, including quad-core chips and its first triple-core processors for desktop PCs. The company’s triple-core Phenom X3 8000 series ...

There's been industry speculation that the X3 is really a quad-core X4 with one of its cores disabled (either by design or due to a bad core found during QA). An AMD spokesman confirmed that it is, ...

Advanced Micro Devices on Wednesday announced the availability in the channel of three new Phenom triple-core desktop processors as part of its packaging of high-definition computing platforms aimed ...

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