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  • AMD delays desktop Phenom release

    AMD has confirmed it is delaying the shipment of two of its new quad-core Phenom desktop processors.

  • Asia hungry for multicore processors

    Virtualisation and flexibility are two of the key factors driving demand for multicore chips in the Asia Pacific region.

  • The second coming of Intel's Core Duo

    Intel has decided to borrow the sequential naming scheme it used for its famous Pentium brand and apply it to the new Core line of chips.

  • Intel breathes new life into desktops

    Intel will release its Prescott desktop chip later this year and follow it in 2004 with a successor code-named Tejas and a slew of other products designed to make the desktop more compelling.

  • Intel launches Atom power, devices due in June

    The new chips, described by the company as entirely Core 2 Duo-compatible but with a tenth of the power requirements, will first reach the market in a fleet of partner mobile Internet devices (MIDs) in late May or early June.

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  • 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.

  • Intel: Friend or foe?

    Although AMD has painted Intel as a bully, execs who've dealt with company draw a more ambiguous picture.

  • Intel names mobile chip family

    Intel has announced a new brand name for its next-generation mobile processor technology: Centrino.

  • Intel CEO wants an employee attitude check

    Although Intel has done well financially so far this year, the chipmaker's chief executive, Craig Barrett, still isn't satisfied with its track record, following numerous product delays that have affected its plans for this year. And he's ordering some changes.

  • Apple sneaks past Intel to make own processors?

    If you listen to Intel, the last hold-outs against the x86 instruction set are about to fall with super-powered Nehalem swarms mopping up the high end of massed Power PC supercomputers, and sneaky little Atoms nibbling away at the ARM embedded market.

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  • Intel breathes new life into desktops

    Intel will release its Prescott desktop chip later this year and follow it in 2004 with a successor code-named Tejas and a slew of other products designed to make the desktop more compelling.

  • Intel's Core 2 Duo lives up to hype

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

  • Good-bye, Pentium -- hello, Core 2 Duo

    Intel officially closed the books on the Pentium era on Thursday with the Core 2 Duo, its most important product launch in 13 years.

  • 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.

  • Chipmakers dip processor prices

    Intel and AMD enact their first sweeping desktop processor price cuts of the year in an effort to make way for new chips and encourage customers to buy new PCs.

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