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Intel Unveils New Chips to Battle AMD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the go-down-swinging dept.

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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  1. Energy efficiency by Lisandro · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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!

  2. Re:Intel giving in to the pressure by Nuffsaid · · Score: 4, Funny

    No doubt, the heat is on their processors!

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  3. Re:Too Little, Too late? by hyc · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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