Intel announces "Core 2 Duo on steroids"
Posted by danwarne on 17 April 2007 - 09:18 · 24 comments & 8522 views
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#2 Posted by ishtar on 17 Apr 2007 - 09:33
- Heh Heh intel up to their old tricks again ,Lets see how many people they can dupe this time.
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#2.1 Posted by C++ on 17 Apr 2007 - 13:39
- Yea, Intel is really just a bunch of dirty tricksters... They've never made a good product, and have only gotten to their position today through the use of digitized dark voodoo magic. In fact, their current CPUs are NOT better than AMD's. They just built little subliminal messaging radios into all their processors, which transmit undetectable high frequency waves and make our brains perceive any benchmark results returned by them as superior.
Or, just maybe, while Intel was hardworking at engineering better CPUs when there was an actual competition, AMD should have done the same instead of spending their time bad mouthing Intel and crying wolf about monopolies.
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#3 Posted by leesmithg on 17 Apr 2007 - 09:35
- On steeer-oids huh, hope they get drug tested.
I don't want a junky in my system.
More gimmicks.
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#4 Posted by HawkMan on 17 Apr 2007 - 10:27
- So this is the intel version of the AMD tech presented sometime last year ? the whole use two cores as one more pwoerful core thing...
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#4.2 Posted by yakumo on 17 Apr 2007 - 12:19
- Doesn't sound the same to me actually, unless I should have read more detail on the AMD thing.
AMD thing sounded like a system for more than one core to work together efficiently processing single threaded code, so the system is accessed as 1 CPU, but all the cores do the work.
From the article this new Intel tech is effectively powering down the other cores, to give a power/speed boost to just one to accelerate it's function.
I hope someone with a better memory of the AMD article can explain things in more detail, but I think that's the gist of it. if this is correct then the AMD system, if they can get it to work efficiently and seamlessly would be a more powerful and useful solution. -
#4.3 Posted by majortom1981 on 17 Apr 2007 - 12:45
- Quote - (yakumo said @ #4.2)Doesn't sound the same to me actually, unless I should have read more detail on the AMD thing.
AMD thing sounded like a system for more than one core to work together efficiently processing single threaded code, so the system is accessed as 1 CPU, but all the cores do the work.
From the article this new Intel tech is effectively powering down the other cores, to give a power/speed boost to just one to accelerate it's function.
I hope someone with a better memory of the AMD article can explain things in more detail, but I think that's the gist of it. if this is correct then the AMD system, if they can get it to work efficiently and seamlessly would be a more powerful and useful solution.
Well it depends how much of a speed boost does the core in the intel version get?
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#5 Posted by +nicholas-c on 17 Apr 2007 - 10:34
- intel + microsoft = end of the competition?
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#6 Posted by azz0r_wugg on 17 Apr 2007 - 10:57
- I smell celeron.
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#7 Posted by alsheron on 17 Apr 2007 - 11:56
- Bios replacement in collabo with MicroHoff.... I smell DRM!
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#7.1 Posted by C++ on 17 Apr 2007 - 13:29
- DRM? If I was a geek, I'd be literally rolling on the floor laughing right now. They are promoting a BIOS replacement. Do you even know what a BIOS is?
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#8 Posted by majortom1981 on 17 Apr 2007 - 12:02
- Wait so AMD can do this and everyone praises them but Intel Does the same thing and everybody complains?
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#9 Posted by Djago1 on 17 Apr 2007 - 12:09
- Naturally, its always the biggest that get slagged off the most (usually) compared to the smaller ones. At least, the more user-friendly products that cost three times as much as an equally powerful other model from a different company.
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#9.1 Posted by MrCobra on 17 Apr 2007 - 12:24
- Nothing with Microsoft in it is good for others. But hey, what can ya do.
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#10 Posted by Tech001101 on 17 Apr 2007 - 13:39
- If they make a Mobile version for laptops will it be more efficient than the current core2duo with battery power ?
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#11 Posted by
neufuse on 17 Apr 2007 - 14:48
- Gawd I wish they would just get EFI / UEFI out already to the masses.... please announce that all new chipsets will require it *crosses fingers*
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#12 Posted by zivan56 on 17 Apr 2007 - 16:11
- EFI only on Intel Macs? What was this guy smoking?
I've had an Insyde EFI BIOS in my laptop since 2003...
Intel also foreshadowed a major announcement tomorrow around Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- the replacement for BIOS that has so far only been used in Intel Macs. "We have been working with Microsoft," Intel hinted.