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Intel Stepping Up to Combat AMD's 4x4

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chip-fight dept.

Grooves writes "Intel has said that the company is stepping up the pace of its Core 2 architecture rollout to compete with AMD's 4x4. Two "quad-core" parts originally slated for release in the first half of 2007, Kentsfield for the desktop and Clovertown for servers, will make their debut as early as the end of this year. The Ars article warns that per-core bandwidth problems could end up giving a performance advantage to AMD's 4x4 approach."

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  1. Oooh.... core wars by October_30th · · Score: 3, Funny

    Cores - the more the merrier.

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  2. AMD is winning the naming war! by Trigun · · Score: 5, Funny

    If the war is for who can make up the worst name. What stupid names, and not just AMD or Intel, Microsoft, Ubuntu, etc. Some execs with 8 year old daughters are naming these things. Why can't we get good names, like Project:Doom, or Omega Solution?

    1. Re:AMD is winning the naming war! by karnal · · Score: 2, Funny

      last week a pedestrian in my country was killed by a _bicycle_,

      So...

      In Soviet Russia, bicyclists kill you?

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  3. Kentsfield Panini by digitaldc · · Score: 3, Funny

    In other words, the Kentsfield is two Core 2 Duo dice sandwiched into a single package, and likewise with the Xeon-based Clovertown part.

    How long before we have a Core 2 duo meltdown and Core 2 core breach??
    One Kentsfield sandwich please, extra hot! I'll take that to go in my 4x4.

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  4. Re:4x4 is an inaccurate name... by dslbrian · · Score: 5, Funny

    AMD apparantly cannot multiply. 4x4 = 16. The 4x4 architecture is two dual-core CPUs on a single motherboard (2x2=4 cores). This is pretty damn annoying and I wish they would rename it to something a little more accurate to whats going on...

    Well thats not the worst of it. Its actually part-time 4x4, so when your networking starts to get bogged down, you need to get out and lock the hub...

  5. Reminds me by Kr5is · · Score: 2, Funny

    This reminds me of the time I wanted to try the Gillette Mach 100 razor and then had to have a skin graft to fix my face. More isn't always better, but in this case I think there may be an exception.

  6. Too technical by UnknowingFool · · Score: 3, Funny

    All this talk about bridges and cores makes my head hurt. What I really want to know is if there finally is a processor that can handle Vista. [ducks]

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  7. Re:4x4 is an inaccurate name... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Meh, AMD can't multiple and Intel can't divide. I guess that just leaves IBM and Sun to buy CPUs from.

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  8. What does this mean for Mac users? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who wants an Apple with more than one core anyway?