A dual-core processor chip can often provide better performance than a traditional single-core processor, however it is not automatically twice as fast. Software - including the system OS and/or ...

A CPU that performs computations on one number or one element of data at a time. The primary CPU in all general-purpose devices (desktop, laptop, smartphone, etc.) are scalar processors. This type of ...

A quad-core processor is like a dual-core processor, but with four cores instead of two. Multi-core processors with more than four cores are also possible.