The earlier mobile phones were basically cousins of the traditional landline phones but the smartphones that are in use nowadays are very close in functionality to cameras and computers. These add-ons ...

Much about the Galaxy S 4, Samsung’s new flagship smartphone, is the company remixing its Galaxy S III formula — with no big changes to the design or UI look and feel, and new software features such ...

The first smartphones with dual-core processors reached the market in 2010. Before that smartphones used single-core processors maxing out at around 1.4GHz. Since then the number of cores has grown ...

We have had multi-core processors in our PCs for over a decade, and today they are considered the norm. At first it was dual-core, then quad-core, and today companies like Intel and AMD offer high end ...

Multicore CPUs first appeared on the desktop and laptop PC platforms around 2005. Though Intel currently has the lion's share of different x86/x86-64 multicore processor models, AMD beat Intel to ...

While Qualcomm has introduced a faster version of their Snapdragon 800, in the Snapdragon 805 there’s another chip manufacturer in town making some noise. MediaTek, a company that makes processors and ...

Qualcomm on Monday at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona unveiled single, dual, and quad-core versions of its next-generation Snapdragon processors based on the 28-nm-scale Krait architecture.

Samsung has confirmed that the UK's Galaxy S4 will have a quad-core chip, not the 8-core affair some countries will get. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ presenter of Adventures in ...

Although computers with quad-core processors are typically faster than single-core models, the difference in speed depends on a number of factors. On a very busy system and under ideal conditions, a ...

Australia, the US and the UK all got the quad-core S4, but is the difference between it and the octa-core really that big? Nic Healey is a Senior Editor with CNET, based in the Australia office. His ...