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• Hands-on with HTC's hot new Android smartphones: Quad-core One X and siblings

  By Ginny Mies | 27 February, 2012 08:41

  HTC unveiled its new One X, One S, and One V smartphones in Barcelona, Spain, today. I had the chance to preview this latest crop of HTC Android smartphones in an exclusive hands-on session last week.

• HTC announces the One X, its first quad-core smartphone

  By Ginny Mies | 27 February, 2012 08:42

  HTC kick-started Mobile World Congress 2012, the world’s largest mobile-devices trade show, on Sunday by showing three of its new Android smartphones: the HTC One X, the HTC One S, and the HTC One V. HTC has not yet announced pricing or launch dates for the phones.

• First look at LG's new smartphones, including the Optimus 4X HD Quad-Core

  By Ginny Mies | 27 February, 2012 07:09

  LG's new Android smartphones all feature big screens and multi-core chipsets. LG today unveiled the Optimus 4X HD, the company’s first quad-core phone, a slimmer Optimus 3D Max, and a 5-inch "phablet", the LG Vu - all at an event keyed to Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. We got to use themm and here are our early impressions of each.

• PC makers leak Intel's upcoming quad-core laptop chips

  By Agam Shah | 25 May, 2010 05:23

  PC makers Hewlett-Packard and Dell have spilled details about new quad-core laptop processors from Intel prior to launch of the chips.

• Lawsuit claims HP PCs suffer constant lockups, crashes

  By Gregg Keizer | 17 November, 2009 07:45

  A Colorado man has sued Hewlett-Packard, saying that its Pavilion Elite desktop computers are "inherently defective," and constantly lock up within 10-20 minutes of use.

• Intel drops prices of quad-core desktop chips

  By Agam Shah | 21 July, 2009 06:17

  Intel dropped prices of some quad-core desktop processors on Sunday as it gets ready to launch processors based on the new Nehalem chip architecture.

• AMD plans 16-core server chip

  By Agam Shah | 23 April, 2009 05:38

  Advanced Micro Devices is designing a server chip with up to 16 cores, quadrupling the count of its current quad-core server chips, the company said Wednesday.

• Apple jump-starts Nehalem launch for Intel

  By Agam Shah | 04 March, 2009 11:59

  Apple on Tuesday jumped ahead of Intel in launching the chip maker's quad-core Xeon chips, announcing two workstations that carry the upcoming processors.

• Intel will trump AMD with six-core chip next month

  By Sharon Gaudin | 26 August, 2008 11:08

  The quad-core chips that have sat atop the microprocessor heap for the past two years are about to start being replaced by bigger, burlier six-core processor technology.

• Move over quad-cores, Intel's ready to ship 6-core chips

  By Sharon Gaudin | 21 August, 2008 09:25

  The quad-core chips that have sat at the top of the microprocessor heap for two years are about to begin to be replaced by their bigger, burlier older brother - the 6-core processor.

• Intel, Yahoo unveil joint effort to link Web, TV

  By Sharon Gaudin | 21 August, 2008 12:21

  When Intel lays out its vision for the future, the chipmaker most often focuses on new uses for its Atom processor, greater mobility and, of course, plans to develop more and more chips.