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Intel talks up next-generation chips
News Intel expects its forthcoming Conroe and Merom chips to deliver a performance advantage of at least 20 percent over chips from AMD that are slated to be released at the same time, an Intel executive said on Friday.
[February 20, 2006, 8:25]
Intel takes early lead with Core systems
News Intel's Conroe desktop processor outperformed AMD's FX-60 in tests last week, but AMD supporters are conceding nothing until systems appear in the wild. Independent hardware reviewers at this month's Intel Developer Forum were given a chance to...
[March 15, 2006, 8:00]
Intel's Core 2 Duo delivers on promises
News Independent chip reviewers across the Internet have unveiled the results of their tests of Intel's upcoming Core 2 Duo processor for desktops, or the chip formerly known as Conroe. Back in February, before Intel had released details about the Core...
[July 17, 2006, 8:45]
Intel reveals second-gen dual-core details
News Code names for those second-generation dual-core chips are Conroe, for desktop machines; Merom, for laptops; and Woodcrest, for lower-end servers with two processor sockets, Otellini said. His presentation indicated that Conroe could arrive about...
[May 6, 2005, 9:05]
Intel aims VPro at businesses
News VPro stickers will start appearing over the next few months on PCs that contain Intel's Conroe processor, a new chipset and an Intel networking chip, Otellini said. A wider launch of Conroe and VPro is not expected until the third quarter.
[April 25, 2006, 8:50]
Averill may give business PCs a boost
News With the release of Conroe, a new dual-core processor based on the company's new Core microarchitecture, and the 965 chipset, Intel will have a much better performance story in Averill compared with its older technology for business PCs, said Rob...
[March 8, 2006, 8:25]
Intel launch event to include Merom
News The company has already launched the Woodcrest server chip, and released several details about the Conroe desktop chip, both of which address markets where Intel had lagged behind the performance of AMD's processors.
[July 24, 2006, 8:50]
AMD updates desktop chip designs
News AMD is releasing the chips about two months before Intel plans to launch Conroe, a desktop processor based on its Core architecture. Conroe is expected to be a major improvement over Intel's current desktop processors.
[May 24, 2006, 10:00]
Intel readies expanded chip lineup
News While the document indicates that Presler is expected to include separate cache memory components, Conroe will sport 2MB and 4MB high-speed unified cache memory, the document said. Conroe is part of Intel's next-generation, low-power micro...
[October 13, 2005, 12:40]
Intel shows off quad-core chip
News A notebook chip called Merom and a desktop chip called Conroe coming out around the same time will be based on the same architecture. Rattner indicated that Merom and Conroe will only be dual-core chips, as many analysts expect.
[February 13, 2006, 8:05]
Core Duo gets a second lease on life
News The Core 2 Duo name will be used for desktop chips based on the Conroe chip, as well as for notebook chips based on the Merom chip. Merom processors consume less power than Conroe chips, but they're otherwise very similar.
[May 8, 2006, 8:50]
AMD dismisses Intel's performance claims
News As might be expected, AMD doesn't think much of Intel's performance claims for its upcoming Conroe and Merom products. Conroe and Merom are the first desktop and notebook processors to use Intel's next-generation microarchitecture, a new design...
[February 28, 2006, 9:00]
Intel reveals second-gen dual-core details
Talkback That means that Conroe, the desktop chip to succeed Presler is the 3rd generation. This is sloppy journalism. Smithfield is the first generation of dual core chips for the desktop. Presler is the second generation.
[May 6, 2005, 14:22]
Intel prepares to reveal all
News The chips are code-named Merom (for notebooks), Conroe (for desktops) and Woodcrest (for servers). Although the various Merom and Conroe chips will differ by cache size and other attributes, the fact that they will share similar architectures is...
[August 12, 2005, 9:20]
Pentium D prices tipped to plunge
News That's still the plan for the Core 2 Duo chips, formerly known as Conroe and Merom, but Intel isn't just launching the new products into the high end of its range, Mulloy said. Conroe, the desktop version, will arrive in July, while Merom, a...
[June 9, 2006, 9:05]
Intel unveils new low-power chips
News It will be the basis for three new 65nm dual-core products to be launched in the second half of 2006 - Woodcrest for servers, Conroe for desktops and Merom for mobile use. At the opening keynote at Intel's autumn 2005 developer forum in San...
[August 23, 2005, 18:15]
depends on the hardware
Talkback I found Kalyway was the easiest way to install from scratch, direct from DVD, and this is on commodity ASRock hardware, with IDE, DDR RAM, AGP and a Core2 Duo (Conroe) (Socket 775) The only problems are the AGP slot, which isn't quartz enabled...
[May 15, 2008, 9:00]
Intel opens 65nm Ireland factory
News Intel will introduce its Intel Core 2 Duo processors for the desktop and notebook (formerly code-named Conroe and Merom, respectively). Intel has opened a third chip plant focused on 65-nanometre processes as it moves ahead with its latest array of...
[June 26, 2006, 9:35]
Quad-core processors get an airing
News More interest is likely to come for Conroe, a dual-core processor for desktop PCs due in the second half of the year. Pat Gelsinger, a senior vice president in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, demonstrated the processors during a speech at the...
[March 8, 2006, 8:15]
Intel contemplates business branding
News One logical time to introduce the brand would be at the third-quarter launch of a business PC platform code-named Averill, which combines the dual-core Conroe desktop processor with the First came Centrino for laptops with wireless networking.
[March 27, 2006, 9:20]
