Manufacturing Industry

Users stand to win as Intel-AMD chip wars enter a new era.(DUAL-CORE PROCESSORS)

Manufacturing Business Technology, November, 2005

Counting the number of cores--instead of measuring clock speeds--could soon be the primary method of determining which servers and PCs to buy. The multi-core processor era officially kicked off this past spring, when both Intel and AMD introduced dual-core processors for desktop PCs and servers.

Both companies also are working on designs that call for packing even more cores into a single processor. Currently, AMD dual-core processors are available in IBM eServer BladeCenter machines and Hewlett-Packard Proliant BL4SP servers. The Intel Xeon dual-core processors are available in Dell Power Edge SC430 servers. Both Intel and AMD have announced plans to introduce dual-chips to support mobile devices in 2006. Jeff Austin, product marketing...

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