p2pnet - rss feed: Intel, AMD two-in-one chips
p2pnet.net News:- If you’re what the marketeers call an ‘early adopter,’ someone who just has to have the latest technology whether he/she needs it or not, you’ll know the first PCs built around Intel’s dual-core Pentium processor are arriving.
Velocity Micro has unveiled its DCX line, equipped with Chipzilla’s Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 840 processor running at speeds of up to 4.0 GHz, Information Week points out .
“Alongside the Raptor DCX model, which is aimed at gamers, Velocity has unveiled the ProMagix DCX multimedia machine and the ProMagix W140 DCX professional workstation,” says the story.
“Velocity’s Raptor will have to compete in a market where machines running AMD’s powerful Athlon 64 are already popular in the gaming community.”
For those who are seriously into what’s inside the box, "Intel let ExtremeTech.com sneak behind the curtain of its anticipated Dual-Core Pentium Extreme Edition processor for a full performance preview with benchmarks,” writes ThinSkin on slashdot.
“Bundled with essentially two Prescott cores on one die, the Extreme Edition 840 processor clocks at 3.2GHz and contains a beefed-up power management system to keep the CPUs running cool during use. Expect Intel’s dual-core line to hit the streets sometime this quarter. No word on pricing yet."
And there’s an update to the /. post from T saying: "Timmus points out FiringSquad’s preview, too, writing ‘The benchmark results are mixed, with a few applications taking advantage of the new CPU, and some that don’t.’ And Kez writes in reference to this article to say: ‘Our article on HEXUS.net, covering the P4 EE in detail, states the price as £650 [close to $1,220] (that’s what we’re looking at in the UK anyway, not sure about the U.S.)’."
Why is Chipzilla rushing?
One reason is because AMD is promising its dual core processors will be available in the Opteron flavour during this quarter, says The Inquirer, continuing, "Intel hates to lose face, and particularly dislikes the way it was forced to alter direction during 2004 because of internal and external pressures.
"The second reason is that Intel wants to buy some time in the marketplace. While dual core processors are far from being a new idea, the whole X86 world during 2005 has been hit by dual core frenzy. It’s a new kind of rat race where the marketing stakes are probably far higher than the technology implications."
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See:-
Information Week - Velocity Unveils PCs With Intel Dual-Core Pentium, April 5, 2005
The Inquirer - AMD and Intel crack on with dual core plans, April 5, 2005
