Apple has previewed OS X 10.6 at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco, code-named Snow Leopard.
Intel has been showing off a programming model which it claims will help C and C++ developers take advantage of a parallel computing without the need for any code changes.
Intel and Microsoft announced on Tuesday they are jointly backing university research to help address the challenges posed by a shift to processors with many brains.
Intel is expected to release on Monday development tools designed to help programmers at software companies take advantage of the added computing power available on multicore systems.
IBM plans to release its fourth-generation high-end Intel-based server this year, a model geared for use with the quad-core "Tigerton" Xeon processor, and will help software companies better support machines of its ilk.
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Abhi Talwalkar, general manager of Intel's Enterprise Platform Group, provides an insight into the dual-core Montecito, the company's latest Itanium chip.
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