Intel Unveils New Chips to Battle AMD

An anonymous reader writes "Reuters is reporting that chip giant Intel hopes to get back on track in their continued market share war with AMD when they unveil a new line of chips at their upcoming twice-annual developers forum. From the article: 'AMD, once content to mimic Intel's advances, has set the technological pace in recent years with innovations such as putting two processing cores in a single chip -- moves that have helped it gobble market share from its much-larger rival.'"

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Energy efficiency

[Lisandro]

"Multicore gives us the ability to get back on traditional performance growth lines," Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner told reporters on Monday. "We have become fanatical about energy efficiency. We have to continue to make progress in terms of energy efficiency."

    Does this means these new multicores will fry eggs even faster? I hate it when my meal isn't done in time!

Re:Intel giving in to the pressure

[Nuffsaid]

No doubt, the heat is on their processors!

Re:Too Little, Too late?

[hyc]

What a sobering thought. "We've invented a space heater that produces computations as an operational byproduct."

Re:wanna compare cpu speeds?

[Nuffsaid]

Ha! My super-optimized Gentoo x86-64 system, running on a 2 GHz Turion64 CPU, all unnecessary services and processes killed, under optimal condition (downslope, wind from behind, air temp below 10C) uses exactly zero seconds to tell me "Error" in kcalc...