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  • AMD prepares quad-core Opteron launch

    AMD will soon begin selling its low-power, quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors.

  • AMD debuts 45nm 'Shanghai' CPU

    AMD launched its latest quad-core Opteron processor, code-named 'Shanghai', yesterday internationally.

  • Intel demos ultra-mobile Moorestown

    Intel announced this week at the Intel Developer Forum in Taipei that its first working Moorestown platform for mobile internet devices (MIDs) had come out of fabrication.

  • Spintronic CPUs a decade away: Intel

    Alternative methods of radically increasing the performance of CPUs, such as spintronics, wouldn't find their way into production for at least another 10 years, Intel said this week in Taiwan.

  • Intel's chipset road map lacks a driver

    Executives in charge of Intel's integrated graphics program once hoped to take a giant step forward with the company's latest chipset. Instead, it's running in place.

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  • Photo gallery: 35 years of Intel chip design

    A look at how Intel chips have evolved -- from the revolutionary 4004 to the teraflop-ready 80-core prototype of tomorrow.

  • Could HP's AMD laptop sway Dell?

    If ever there were a case for Dell to do a Texas two-step to AMD, analyst says, the Compaq nx6125 might just be it.

  • Intel Developer Forum Taipei: Photos

    Intel fans got together this week in Taipei, Taiwan to attend the Intel Developer Forum, where the company planned to tout its designs on faster, more power-efficient chips and platforms as well as talk about technology trends.

  • CPU roadmap: server processors

    In the world of processors, attention seems firmly focused on the fast-paced desktop and mobile markets. But that doesn't mean that there's nothing going on in server-land.

  • The best mobile processor is...

    Today's notebooks come with a vast range of processors, but will they give you the best performance? Our comprehensive review benchmarks 19 of the latest mobile processors, giving you an insight into the best chips on the market.

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  • Dual-core desktop duel: AMD vs. Intel

    AMD and Intel both have dual-core CPUs out on the market, but which chip maker's technology is truly the best? To find the answer, we built two testbeds as nearly identical as we could and ran each chip through a battery of tests.

  • New Intel chipset for the performance crowd

    If you thought 3.06 GHz PCs were fast, get ready for Canterwood, Intel's new chipset that further boosts the performance of Pentium 4 processors.

  • Tech Guide: Intel overclocking

    Why overclock a processor? We examine why you'd want to overclock a CPU and how to do it for the Intel Celeron and P4 processors.

  • Benchmarks: Intel Core i7 (Nehalem)

    Intel's new Nehalem architecture features an integrated memory controller and runs two threads per CPU core. Our extensive benchmark tests reveal how well the new quad-core processors perform in practice.

  • Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition

    While Core i7 presents a new performance paradigm, the heinously gluttonous Australian prices will need to come down before it's accepted by the mainstream.

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