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Story: Intel's first dual-core CPU benchmarked
Posted by: Bruce Hobbs (Tuesday 12 April 2005, 1:36 AM)
Although Intel is preparing to ship the first dual-core processor chip running the x86 instruction set, IBM has been shipping dual-core PowerPC processors for about a year now. The IBM processors could certainly go into desktop systems and Apple will probably include them in a Macintosh system later this year. So really this is a race to see who's going to be second and third in the dual-core race.
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