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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]
Intel launches first dual-core server chip
News Manufacturing was going so well with Intel's "Paxville" chip - a dual-core model designed for higher-end servers with four or more processors - that Intel released a version for dual-processor servers.
[October 11, 2005, 9:30]
Intel details dual-core notebook chip
News Yonah, a notebook chip coming from Intel in the first part of next year, is going to be a lot different than its predecessors, company executives say. The chip, which will be made on the 65nm process, will come with a number of enhancements over...
[June 3, 2005, 9:20]
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]
Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD
Talkback I have started a poll on "Has Intel's New Chip Architecture Finally Defeated Amd? You can vote here: http://www.gitc.ca Can’t wait to see the results for this!
[September 12, 2006, 20:52]
Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD
Talkback At the moment, with the presented review, I don't have a clue whether how useful it would be to upgrade my Athlon XP 2000+ to such a dual-core chip. Regarding the multimedia related tests in general and more specifically the video and audio...
[November 5, 2005, 18:20]
Dual-core not quite two for the price of one
Leader You do get double the chip, but each bit isn't quite as swift as before. If you were wondering when dual-core processors were going to enter the mainstream, the answer is now revealed - it should be very soon.
[August 1, 2005, 13:50]
Dual-core Xeon wait shortened
News Xeon, like Intel's Pentium and AMD's Opteron and Athlon, is a member of the x86 chip family, but Intel expects to release a dual-core Itanium processor by the end of this year. Intel plans to release its first dual-core server processors this year...
[August 16, 2005, 9:00]
Dell to launch dual-core Xeon servers
Talkback Not to mention AMD has 3 dual core chip models out right now, that are much faster than this (270/275/280). If Intel has not made any core adjustments, that bring a massive boost in performance, a 2.80 GHZ dual core xeon will still not even be as...
[September 30, 2005, 4:02]
VMware takes dual-core licensing plunge
News While other software suppliers like Oracle - which counts each core of a multi-core chip as three-quarters of a processor - and Symantec are struggling to come to terms with multicore pricing, VMware has opted to embrace the technology.
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
IBM reveals dual-core Power details
News That means that either side of the chip can be powered down to a state IBM calls "doze" while the other core continues to work. The chip will be available in speeds ranging from 1.4GHz to 2.5GHz. The PowerPC 970MP is a dual-core version of the...
[July 11, 2005, 16:30]
IBM gives Power5 servers dual-core boost
News Today, each p5-575 ships with eight Power5 chips, but each chip has only one of its two cores activated. By the end of the year, though, IBM will ship the system with eight dual-core processors. The dual-core models will run at a speed of 1.5GHz...
[June 20, 2005, 9:25]
Win one of three AMD dual-core Athlons
News The processors will work with your existing Socket 939 motherboards, so all you have to do is plug the new chip in, and you instantly get the power of two processing cores. In today's competition we have three AMD dual-core processors to give away...
[December 20, 2005, 11:40]
Cray supercomputer goes dual-core
News However, Red Storm does have an advantage in the form of Cray's SeaStar chip, which passes messages among the thousands of four-processor computers that collectively make up Red Storm. The Red Storm computer, a machine Cray will start building at...
[July 30, 2004, 10:25]
IBM readies Power6 blades for next year
News Beginning with its Power6 dual-core chip, IBM will build its high-end Power processors into blade servers for the first time in 2007, marking a significant expansion of blade abilities. A dual-core PowerPC 970 is available, but the chip line has...
[December 7, 2006, 11:17]
Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD review
Reviews If several applications are active at the same time and certain tasks are stalled, then a dual core chip is worth having. A typical Athlon 64 X2 3800+ system uses less than 100W, while an equivalent Intel-based system uses about 50 per cent more...
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
AMD dual-core desktop debut due
News Intel's first dual core chip for desktops, code-named Smithfield, will come out in the second quarter, ahead of Toledo. AMD, however, will come out with a dual-core version of its Opteron chip for servers in the middle of the year.
[February 23, 2005, 8:00]
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]
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. The tester at Tom's Hardware, meanwhile, came to similar conclusions, but generally gave slightly higher...
[June 1, 2005, 8:55]
Dual-core servers review
Reviews As the name implies, you get two processors on each dual-core chip, effectively doubling the amount of processing the host server can cope with; there are four cores per chip on the latest quad-core silicon.
[February 26, 2007, 15:21]
