Intel Ships Dual-Core Chips

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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Re:Looks like intel rained on AMD's parade..

[mike518]

"Just last week we were all ment to assume that Dell (oops, I mean Intel) wasn't ready to ship dual core until Q1 of next year..."

dell, intel.. oh whats the difference anymore? They are pretty much the same overpriced for what you get and annoying.

They should just merge and become deltel (del-tel) ... mmm or maybe intell (int-ell) wait-- isnt that--- bleh nm...

In short, to summerize this post which will clearly be +0, offtopic. Dell and Intel both suck and intels processors need more than improvements, they need price cuts before i will consider them over AMD (and their dual should be out shortly).