PC World has escaped punishment from the UK's advertising watchdog after one of its adverts appeared to suggest that Intel's dual-core processors performed twice as quickly as single-core processors.

Intel's first dual-core chip for Centrino laptops. Introduced in early 2006, the 32-bit Core Duo CPU was also the first x86 chip used in the Mac, as Apple transitioned from PowerPC to x86 (see MacBook ...

Speaking at a launch event for the chip at the company's Santa Clara, Calif., headquarters, Otellini said when the Pentium processor launched years ago it took one year to ship 1 million units. "We ...