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  • AMD goes quad-core with Phenom

    Advanced Micro Devices says its badly needed quad-core desktop processors are on the way, and they'll arrive bearing a new name.

  • AMD launches Business Class platform

    AMD has released a series of chips which it claims has the stability and performance required for machines aimed at business users.

  • AMD cuts prices in chip war

    AMD's long running battle with rival Intel took a new twist yesterday with the manufacturer announcing its latest round of CPU price cuts.

  • Intel pledges 80-core chips in five years

    Intel has built a prototype of a processor with 80 cores that can perform a trillion floating-point operations per second.

  • Intel enthusastic on Nehalem chips

    Intel has set a high level of expectation for its next-generation Nehalem processor, if Tuesday's demonstration at the Intel Developer Forum was anything to go by.

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  • AMD's CTO says Intel messed up

    With a few strong years of market share gains, CTO Phil Hester says AMD will move deeper into servers, PCs and phones.

Reviews (2)

  • Intel's quad-core chip unleashed

    If you thought dual cores were over the top, get ready. Intel presents the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, a single CPU with four distinct processing cores. The first quad-core CPU will remain an enthusiast part for a while, but as a glimpse of the future, it's clear that clock speed is out and core counts are in.

  • Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype

    Intel's new desktop processor has received glowing reports from independent reviewers.

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