After months of deriding rival AMD's strategy of cramming four cores onto one chip, Intel is set to take that concept two cores further.
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.
Intel will complete its transition to the Core architecture across its PC and server processors with the launch of a new quad-core chip next week, the "Tigerton" Xeon MP processor.
Advanced Micro Devices says its badly needed quad-core desktop processors are on the way, and they'll arrive bearing a new name.
The chip-maker has launched its new line of quad-core Xeon products for the multiprocessor server market.
As a drum-roll to its developer conference to be held in Shanghai in April, Intel has released details of its latest chip designs including the six-core Dunnington. Check out our photo gallery to get an insight into Intel's latest developments.
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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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