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Dual-core Opterons to debut early
News AMD is expected to launch new dual-core Opteron chips later this month, ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned. AMD will announce at an event on April 21 in New York that the first dual-core Opteron processors are available, months ahead of...
[April 8, 2005, 8:55]
Dual-core Xeon set for 2006 release
News Intel's first dual-core Xeon processor is scheduled to arrive in the first quarter of 2006, a company executive said on Monday, meaning that it will be out several months after a competing chip from rival Advanced Micro Devices.
[October 19, 2004, 8:40]
Dual-core Xeon wait shortened
News Intel plans to release its first dual-core server processors this year instead of next, and it will employ an unusual manoeuvre to catch up to AMD in the key competitive area. Intel's "Paxville" dual-core version of Xeon, designed for machines with...
[August 16, 2005, 9:00]
Dual-core Itanium finally ready
News Intel will launch its "Montecito" version of Itanium, the first dual-core version of the processor, on 18 July, sources familiar with the event said. Montecito will mean Intel has a dual-core answer to Sun and IBM, which have both sold dual-core...
[July 10, 2006, 10:30]
Dual-core chips will not share cache
News The dual-core chips that Advanced Micro Devices and Intel plan to bring to market next year won't be sharing their memories. Similarly, each core of the dual-core Opteron will have separate caches, said Marius Evers, a researcher at AMD.
[August 26, 2004, 8:20]
Dual-core not quite two for the price of one
Leader If you were wondering when dual-core processors were going to enter the mainstream, the answer is now revealed - it should be very soon. AMD is pricing its dual-core processors for the back-to-school market to persuade families that they need a...
[August 1, 2005, 13:50]
Dual-core Intel chips hit the market
News A few PC makers will start selling PCs containing dual-core chips from Intel on Monday, three days ahead of the debut of the dual cores. Although volumes of the Extreme Edition Pentium 4, code-named Smithfield, will initially be low, Intel will...
[April 18, 2005, 9:05]
Dual-core Itanium chip gets airing
News Montecito, Intel's first dual-core chip, will contain nearly two billion transistors but will run cooler than its existing relatives. A member of the Itanium family of server processors, Montecito will contain 1.7 billion transistors, making it...
[February 7, 2005, 8:10]
Dual-core Xeons play to Dell's strengths
News Dell's new dual-core, quad-socket PowerEdge edge servers are being targeted at shops migrating to Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and other enterprise applications that traditionally sat on two and four-way servers but which are now scaling...
[November 2, 2005, 15:55]
AMD's dual-core desktop debut outstrips Intel
News AMD was second in coming to market with a dual-core desktop chip, but it's first in benchmark scores, according to sites that test the chip. Both Anandtech and Tom's Hardware - two hardware benchmarking sites - have published reports stating that...
[June 1, 2005, 8:55]
AMD launches dual-core Phenom, Athlon CPUs
News AMD has announced two new dual-core desktop processors that should allow PCs to take advantage of faster memory standards, creating faster models. The processor maker's Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition processor, introduced on Tuesday, is its first...
[June 2, 2009, 16:41]
AMD steps up dual-core pressure
News Advanced Micro Devices plans to release a dual-core processor for desktops in the second half of 2005, stepping up its schedule to better compete with Intel. The company has completed the design of a dual-core processor that will be sold as an...
[June 15, 2004, 9:30]
AMD readies dual-core Athlon 64
News AMD plans to release its dual-core desktop chips in Taiwan on Tuesday, and manufacturers such as HP, Acer and Lenovo will discuss how they will use them in their product lines. At the Computex trade show, AMD plans to launch four dual-core Athlon...
[May 31, 2005, 9:15]
IBM reveals dual-core Power details
News The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of the PowerPC 970FX, which is commonly found in Macintosh computers running G5 processors. That means that either side of the chip can be powered down to a state IBM calls "doze" while the other core...
[July 11, 2005, 16:30]
Intel launches first dual-core server chip
News Intel launched its first dual-core server processor on Monday, a Xeon that makes up some ground lost to rival AMD but that's due to be superseded by a more powerful model in just a few months. Intel took an unusual step to catch up to AMD, which...
[October 11, 2005, 9:30]
Intel about to release dual-core server chip
News Intel is gearing up to debut its first ever dual-core processor for servers, and ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com has learned it's a Pentium. Intel has 15 dual-core projects under way. However, the company has only two dual-core processors on the...
[July 11, 2005, 9:35]
Intel details dual-core notebook chip
News Current dual-core desktop chips from AMD and Intel come with similar sized caches, but each core accesses only 1MB of cache memory dedicated to it. I believe we were designing it before anyone knew how to spell dual core," he said.
[June 3, 2005, 9:20]
Intel unveils dual-core details
News Intel fleshed out its dual-core processor strategy on Tuesday by announcing the first desktop chip in the range. The first mobile dual-core chip, codenamed Yonah, will be fabricated in 65nm technology and include power management: it will ship in...
[December 15, 2004, 15:00]
Intel reveals second-gen dual-core details
News Intel President Paul Otellini announced three second-generation dual-core processors on Thursday and said first-generation prototypes are faring well. In February, Intel said it was working on 15 dual-core chip designs and on Thursday Otellini...
[May 6, 2005, 9:05]
Dell to launch dual-core Xeon servers
News Dell plans to announce on Monday the first server to come with Intel's dual-core Xeon processor, a significant step in the allies' effort to catch up with technology from chipmaker AMD. In April, AMD introduced dual-core Opteron processors and the...
[September 26, 2005, 9:35]
