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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. IBM Power 6 @ 6Ghz by CypherOz · · Score: 5, Interesting

    IBM have Power6 chips running at 6Ghz. IBM have been able to do 4 cores with this new technology.

    Refer here

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  2. Re:Innovative dick comparison by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Interesting
    And I'm not talking about AMD, Intel is just as guilty for equaling innovation with "make that damn thing run faster".


    If they made their processors slower, then they would be "innovating"? What do you want processors to do, really? EVERYBODY wants their CPU to be as fast as possible. If you could choose between two identical CPU's, but one of them were twice as fast as the other, which one would you choose? the slower one? I doubt it. So why are you then whining as if making CPU's faster is a bad thing, since everybody wants faster CPU's? What benefit would there be in having slow processors?

    And they have been doing pretty interesting things in order to make it faster. Pentium Pro with the on-die cache, SIMD, multithreading etc. etc.. Hell, even Cell with it's SPU's was designed the way it is, so it would be as fast as possible. But according to you, that's not innovcation?

    ow that the ceiling is more or less reached and enough waste heat is generated to heat a medium sized home, they change the measurement. Instead of length, we compare circumference. One core, 2 cores, 4 cores, 8.a


    Uh, they are still comparing performance, the means to get performance has just been changed that's all. They are NOT adding cores for the sake of adding cores. They are adding cores in order to increase performance.

    But since you apparently think that making CPU's faster is not the way to go, why not share ith us what YOU want processors to do?
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