In 1998, Ask Ars was an early feature of the newly-launched Ars Technica. Now, as then, it’s all about your questions and our community’s answers. Each week, we’ll dig into our question bag, provide ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) will double the processor count in its Itanium servers in 2004, as the company attempts to fill a technology gap caused by Intel Corp.’s decision not to make multi-core ...

Oracle will halve the number of cores in its next Sparc processor and instead improve its single-thread performance, a weak area for the chip but one that’s important for running large databases and ...