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Intel IDF Day 1 - Quad Core, Santa Rosa And More

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the end-of-days dept.

MojoKid writes "From demos of the new Alan Wake game engine on a 3.73GHz overclocked Quad-Core QX6700 to design showcases with a wafer of 80-core teraflop capable chips, Intel's IDF opening day was brimming with tech-wonder from the company affectionately known as Chipzilla. Paul Otellini also showed pics of upcoming fab facilities in Arizona (Fab 32) and Israel (Fab 28). In total, Intel will have three 45nm fabs by the end of next year at an investment of about $9B, all targeted 45nm manufacturing processes. Finally, a bevy of Quad-Core Kentsfield-based systems are shown here, with Dell and Voodoo's offering looking especially swank."

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  1. Re:They're not quad-core though by maynard · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those dual die dual-core chips are fabbed at 65nm. The upcoming 45nm facilities should be able to manufacture quad-core chips on a single die.

  2. Re:Grr by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It stopped mattering to Intel Marketing while NetBurst was being completely spanked by the K8. Now the Core microarchitecture is (finally) giving competitive performance/money and performance/power numbers, it matters (to Intel Marketing) again.

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  3. Wow... by neoprog · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't really feel like dual-core has really even reached any kind of saturation point in terms of how many people own a dual-core processor. I can't believe (but I do thank) Intel for pushing ahead and making good tech affordable to everyone. I spent a small fortune building the box I'm typing this on (with an AMD x2 socket AM2 4600+). And I know I got a little burned by the am2, but I think the upgrade path will stay clear for a while. I wish I could have waited, but I needed a computer for college and this was top-end about 4 months ago. I loved AMD when they had the better stuff, and now I love Intel, cause the core2's kick butt. When AMD catches up, that's when I'll upgrade my 4600+. ;) prog

  4. Re:Moving fast now, eh? by Golias · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When Apple switched to Intel chips for the Mac, a lot of people were asking "why not AMD?"

    At the time, the answer from Apple was "Intel showed us their future road-map, and we wanted on board."

    Now we are starting to get a glimpse of what they were talking about.

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