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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. 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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    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."