Enabling all cores of a processor can improve performance and multi-tasking capabilities, reduce the amount of energy consumed by the system, and improve the overall stability of the device, as the ...

SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — While software remains the biggest roadblock to implementing processors with more than eight cores, Advanced Micro Devices Senior Fellow and Chief Platform Architect Steve Polzin ...

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 ...