Freescale Semiconductor Inc. today unveiled the embedded MPC8641D Dual Core processor designed to deliver a performance jump and increased system bandwidth while keeping power under control.

Core becomes Intel's single architecture for all of the company's mainstream processor offerings, with the exception of Itanium. It will let software developers more easily create applications that ...

The benefits of dual-core will be obvious to builders who love to multitask. With a dual-processor system installed, it means there&'s a second processor core to share the load. For instance, if one ...