Intel Corp. may unveil its innovative quad-core microprocessor for desktops in just two months from now, a bit earlier than originally anticipated, according to a media report. Early launch may indicate that the company has sufficient product yield and will be able to supply the new chip in volumes to solidify its positions in the markets of high-end desktops and workstations.
Intel is planning to introduce its quad-core code-named Kentsfield microprocessor for desktops in early November, a news-story at eWeek claims. This means that moving the launch from the Q1 2007 to Q4 2006 was not conducted just in order to formally launch the chip in the second half of December ’06, like Intel did with its extreme version of code-named Presler (Pentium D 900-series) product, but really bring the quad-core processing to desktops this year.
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News source: Xbit Labs
Intel is planning to introduce its quad-core code-named Kentsfield microprocessor for desktops in early November, a news-story at eWeek claims. This means that moving the launch from the Q1 2007 to Q4 2006 was not conducted just in order to formally launch the chip in the second half of December ’06, like Intel did with its extreme version of code-named Presler (Pentium D 900-series) product, but really bring the quad-core processing to desktops this year.
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Your logic doesn't really work there. A quad core processor is a processor with four cores. What part of that definition doesn't Intel's processor match?
You quite obviously live in the AMD camp. That's fine. But don't take your insinuations and state it as fact; because you are wrong.
Your logic doesn't really work there. A quad core processor is a processor with four cores. What part of that definition doesn't Intel's processor match?
You quite obviously live in the AMD camp. That's fine. But don't take your insinuations and state it as fact; because you are wrong.
A quad core processor is 1 single physical die with 4 distinct cores on it. The quad core that Intel will be introducing will be just like their first dual core chip. It will be 2 physical ceramic packages piggy backed one on top the other.
So it IS a fact that it's not a true quad core chip.
Your logic doesn't really work there. A quad core processor is a processor with four cores. What part of that definition doesn't Intel's processor match?
You quite obviously live in the AMD camp. That's fine. But don't take your insinuations and state it as fact; because you are wrong.
Awesome analogy. /me claps.
I do question the quad core idea as well. Dual seems to make a lot of sense for most computer workloads, but when you go beyond dual you will quickly hit diminishing returns unless you are doing something very specific that can use that many threads. I guess Intel and AMD are both hoping that games and other software will be written in the future to use these cores, but doing that is actually a lot harder than you might think.
Oh wait, it didn't... nevermind, K8L it is!
*rollseyestoo*
Could THAT be what brought the AMD fanboys onto that barge on the Egyptian river?
Go Intel!
Do you have a clue how many companies and products use the term "quattro" in their names? Google "quattro" and tell me exactly who trademarked that term.
I don't need a quad-core...I just want a Core 2!!
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