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Intel ships first Dual-Core CPUs
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Posted by: Outlaw
Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, said on Monday it has begun shipping the first of a new generation of personal computer microprocessors that combine the power of two chips into one.
Intel's arch-rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., is preparing to introduce a similar chip next week, a person briefed on the company's plan has said.
The technology, called dual-core, allows two separate processing units to operate independently in a single PC, improving performance while multitasking. The transition, analysts have said, gives AMD a key opportunity to take business away from Intel, which commands more than 80 percent of the market.
You can read the full article at Reuters.
Posted by: SKYHN
The question is: How much?
The dual core opterons coming out, the top one costs over $2500 
Posted by: johninc
Its called the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
No clue how much it costs. Its gunna be a 64-bit.
Posted by: SKYHN
It is not 64bit. Intels only 64bit chips are the Itaniums, and they are server chips. Intel has denounced 64bit desktop chips for some time now.
Posted by: TecH-
No. They wont be 64bit, thats why im sticking to AMD.
I think that Intel will charge more for there dualcore, as they did with there EE.
Posted by: taco_fox
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Originally Posted by SKYHN
It is not 64bit. Intels only 64bit chips are the Itaniums, and they are server chips. Intel has denounced 64bit desktop chips for some time now.
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 Intel's 600-series chips support EM64T (compatable with AMD's x86-64) and they've been out for quite a while.
Posted by: SKYHN
Yeah, but isnt that on the Xeon and other server/workstation chips? There is no pentium 4 that supports 64 bit. Thats what I mean, mainstream deskop.
Posted by: Superfly3176
http://www.newegg.com/app/viewprodu...-116-195&DEPA=1
No its definately a desktop chip. While not as good as the amd 64-bit still mainstream. However the name hasn't officially changed yet but i think when we see the dual core/64bit, it will be called the Pentium-D.
Pentium 5 was believed to be Tejas, which I think was or is going to be cancelled in favor of dual-core/EMT-64 technology.
Expect in Q1 2006 for amd to unleash another huge change. A switch in socket. One titled M2, also will do ddr2 and dual core
http://www.c627627.com/Intel/Pentium4/
As you can see above there isn't even a reference to the Tejas processor, its pretty much been cancelled.
http://www.c627627.com/AMD/Athlon64/
Posted by: johninc
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Originally Posted by SKYHN
It is not 64bit. Intels only 64bit chips are the Itaniums, and they are server chips. Intel has denounced 64bit desktop chips for some time now.
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Ok well i dunno i read in pc world about the extreme. But AMD sells 64-bit ones and the Apple G5 is 64-bit.
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
If I recall correctly, the PowerPC architecture has been 64bit from the beginning. I think Itanium, Opteron and Athlon or at leas the AFX are real 64bit chips.
I am pretty sure AMD promised some d-core chips for 939 and 940 as well.
Posted by: taco_fox
no, Apple only started 64bit chips with the G5 because when it came out they proclaimed it as the world's first 64bit desktop computer. I don't get what you mean by "real 64bit chips."
Posted by: VmanBeBop
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Originally Posted by johninc
Its called the Intel Pentium 4 Extreme Edition
No clue how much it costs. Its gunna be a 64-bit.
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*sigh* Typical to get false information from somebody who thinks Macs rule...
JK man. This is a highly biased topic so I shouldn't talk, only having used PCs. 
OMG! taco_fox what the hell happened to ur avatar, man!!! Did you go bad or somethin?!
Posted by: taco_fox
At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi
Posted by: thtadthtshldntb
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Originally Posted by taco_fox
no, Apple only started 64bit chips with the G5 because when it came out they proclaimed it as the world's first 64bit desktop computer. I don't get what you mean by "real 64bit chips."
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PowerPC, since the 601, has been a 64bit architecture, which also has a 32bit mode or subset of instructions. Perhaps the 64bit Macs now also have a 64bit OS.
As to what I meant be "real 64bit chips" I refer to chips that are actually fully 64bit processors ie they can process with 64bit length numbers and address at least 2^64 in memory. As opposed to, for example, the old 286 processor which was a 32bit chip that only had a 16bit memory addressing capability. Granted that was a lot back then but it was billed as a 32bit chip and, it was not.
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