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Intel Pushes Back with Xeon 5100

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the giving-amd-a-gentle-shove dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on Intel's newest chip, the Xeon 5100, which many consider might be the chip that will llow them to stop losing ground to AMD. From the article: 'During the presentation, Intel ran the now-standard comparison test against AMD's highest performing chip, handily beating the system in a speed test. And in a jab at AMD execs, who handed kill-o-watt meters to analysts at the outfit's recent technology day, Intel execs used the same device to measure the new Xeon 5100 system's performance — gauged to be 7 watts better than that of the AMD-based system.'"

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  1. Oh, sweet irony, forgive them! by Doches · · Score: 4, Funny

    The article is surrounded AMD advertisements! Sublety is clearly not a strong point for BusinessWeek...

  2. Preemptive strike by th1ckasabr1ck · · Score: 4, Funny
    "...might be the chip that will llow them to stop losing ground to AMD."

    I'd say the odds of that are llow.

  3. Ah Grammer Nazi...the arch nemesis of... by StressGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Captain Obvious!

    Thank goodness you were here! Many of us may have missed that one.....

    Regards,

    The Amazing Sarcasmo

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  4. Re:They only have 2 of the 3 key components to win by 0racle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Which is why Intel can never hope to be as big of a microprossessor company as AMD.

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