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Intel Ships Dual-Core Chips

Posted by timothy on from the good-for-everyone dept.

Torrey Clark writes "Intel seems to be the first to ship a batch of dual core x86 64-bit processors to OEMs. Intel's first dual-core chip is the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840. The new processor runs at 3.2 GHz, backs Intel's Hyper-Threading and is supported by the company's 955X Express chipsets, formerly code-named Glenwood. Dell also announced that it would be one of the first PC makers to ship Intel's new dual core Pentium Extreme." Reader wyckedone adds "AMD is set to ship their dual core Opteron processor, designed for servers, next week."

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  1. Re:We should be worried by gl4ss · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...and? don't buy a dual core chip then - or buy the software from a competitor.

    dual core chips are just that - two cpu's in one packaging, if you somehow as a software manufacturer have come to the conclusion that it makes sense to sell your licenses based on number of cpu's used to run it then it makes also perfect sense that you would charge the same regardless of the cores being on different pieces of plastics or not. otherwise you could just glue the dual cpu's together with a strand of wire and call it dual core(and paint yourself yellow and run around pretending to be bananaman).

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  2. Re:Bleh... Mobile, please! by RayDude · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What I want to see is quantities.

    Is this one of those announce and only ship a teeny tiny volume to top OEMs or are these parts really going to be shipping in volume to -- for example -- New Egg.

    I guess my question is: did Intel do this announcement just to trump AMD, as they so often do, and not actually have volume silicon?

    My prediction is: These will be hard to get, and the AMD parts will be all over the world on the day they announce.

    Raydude

  3. Re:So, how much are they really worth? by aonaran · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That AMD 800 series chip is for 4 way and 8 way servers.

    ie 4 or 8 dual core chips for 8 or 16 processors

    That is not a fair comparison to a single chip dual core design. The 800 series is deigned to compete in the high end server arena, not the workstation arena.

    Wait till the AMD dual cores that are designed for single processor motherboards hit then compare the prices.