Mar 29 2008
Due before year’s end, the next-gen ‘Nehalem’ architecture succeeds Core 2 with up to eight cores on a single processor, and much more.
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Mar 29 2008
Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few years.
Price has been a key feature of Atom, previously code-named Silverthorne, since the very first time Intel talked about this product. Intel itself stated that the production cost of the tiny chip may be close to that of a 286 CPU, allowing the company to sell the processor for a low price to open a new market of Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) and Nettop computers with prices well below the $200 range.
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Mar 29 2008
AMD has formally unwrapped its three-core Phenom X3 8000 series, along with new versions of its existing quad-core Phenom X4 processors, now known as the 9050 line.
The three-core Phenom X3s, first announced back in September 2007 just ahead of AMD arch-rival Intel’s bi-annual Developer Forum, are detailed just before the next IDF is due to kick off in Shanghai.
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