Intel puts four on the floor
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This week's Intel Developer Forum should reveal more about quad-core processor designs and plans for mobile and server chips.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- With Intel Corp. apparently poised to announce the latest stage of its restructuring effort, speculation has centered not on whether the world's largest chip maker would be cutting jobs, but on how many.
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Quads, duals both targeted Intel has allegedly earmarked April not only for desktop four-core processor price cuts but also to reduce what it charges for quad- and dual-core chips designed for single-processor systems.â¦
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Intel Corp.&#39;s fourth-quarter sales are on track to break a company record as demand for the chips that power computers was stronger than originally expected in the weeks leading up to the holiday buying season.
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One if by land, 16 if by CES Intel has kicked an already down AMD by celebrating the arrival of 16 new chips across its laptop, PC and server lines.â¦
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The Motley Fool - For all the fuss over quad-core chips, you'd think your own PC had them now. Of course, they don't, and they won't. Quad-core chips -- that is, four processors on one piece of silicon -- are aimed at servers.
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Three midrange servers featuring the new chip will be shown at Intel Developer Forum.
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(InfoWorld) - Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) launched a motherboard with four cores on Thursday, targeting gaming enthusiasts in an effort to keep pace with the release of quad-core chips by rival Intel. AMD's Quad FX Platform includes two dual-core Athlon 64 FX-70 series chips and uses Nvidia's 680a chip set. AMD's choice of components shows it is willing to follow open standards even though the companyÂ acquired Nvidia's rival ATI TechnologiesÂ earlier this month, said Ian McNaughton, product manager for Athlon 64 FX products. The launch highlights a debate in the industry about the definition of quad-core processors. Intel hasÂ claimed it won the quad-core raceÂ on Nov. 14 by packaging two dual-core chips together in the Xeon 5300 for servers and Core 2 Extreme QX6700 for gamers. But AMD calls its Quad FX Platform a "4x4," and says it won't release a true "quad-core" processor until 2007, when it combines four cores on a single piece of silicon called "Barcelona." Analysts say they won't be able to judge the winner of the debate until they can test comparable products. In the meantime, one thing is certain: a PC with four computing cores can run a lot of applications at once. PC vendors who use the Quad FX will attract more than just hard-core gamers, McNaughton said. A desktop with four computing cores can be a workstation for "megataskers," those users who watch high-definition video while burning a DVD, downloading a BitTorrent file, and chatting on a TeamSpeak connection, even as their PC runs antivirus software, Skype, and instant messaging applications in the background. "The PC usage model has changed. It's evolving, it's getting crazy and we love it," he said. "People are doing four, five, six things at the same time." Of course, gamers are still a core audience for this product. The extra cores will allow fans of multiplayer online games to play two instances of the game simultaneously, controlling two characters in a single episode of EverQuest, World of Warcraft or Lineage, according to AMD. Many of these gamers have been using AMD's Opteron server chip to manage their heavy computing loads, McNaughton said. The Quad FX Platform will be a more efficient tool for the job and will allow them to upgrade to a pair of quad-core Barcelona chips in the middle of 2007. As the hardware industry relies increasingly on multicore designs, chip power is measured by scalability and efficiency, not just frequency, said AMD spokesman Bubba Wolford. That development is pushing chip vendors to grow from being simple component suppliers to selling entire platforms. AMD has followed that trend to produce its AMD Live product for media center PCs and now the Quad FX. AMD is selling the Quad FX Platform with three types of chips built with a 90-nanometer process, charging $599 for a pair of 2.6 GHz FX-70 chips, $799 for a pair of 2.8 GHz FX-72 chips, and $999 for a pair of 3.0 GHz FX-74 chips, if purchased in lots of 1,000 units.
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Intel is readying a line of consumer electronics chips based on the IA-32 architecture, the design underlying the vast majority of Intel&#39;s desktop, notebook and server processors, said Louis Burns, co-general manger of the Desktop Platforms Group at Intel
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System builders say Intel&#39;s latest price cuts will help them clear out old inventory and should move the sweet spot of the company&#39;s processor lineup to the 3GHz Pentium 4 from the 2.8GHz Pentium 4. After
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Chip maker plans for smaller, faster, less power-hungry processors.
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Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) released its Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor on Monday. The hotly awaited--and just as hotly touted--new chip is geared for a &quot;balanced&quot; approach to home PCs: By tightening
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In a bumpy year of missteps and about-faces, Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) announced another U-turn: On Thursday the chipmaker said it halted plans to release a 4-gigahertz microprocessor.
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New Athlon 64 processors will compete with Intel's Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.
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com December 17, 2004, 4:00 AM PT. Intel plans to come out with chips containing two processing cores next year, but that&#39;s just the start.
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Intel Corp. INTC.O will make   chips with four processing cores in November the world's   biggest microchip maker said on Tuesday as it tries to maintain   a lead over rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.AMD.N.
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Intel develops a new chip that roughly doubles the number of transistors on a chip.