Ballmer: Microsoft must be "multi-core"
CEO says Microsoft must continue to build out businesses in markets other companies have already created.
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28.7.2006 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad-Core Processor
Man, a lot is happening at this very moment in the hardware industry. It's called silly season, and every manufacturer will try to deliver it's best and most refreshing product just in time for you to purchase at Christmas.
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12.11.2007 The First Dual Core Laptop
A dual core laptop was long awaited among the dual core family.
The one we are talking about is produced by WidowPC and is named Sting 917X2.
This new notebook uses the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ processor, making it the fastest dual core laptop.
Though, it seems that other companies like Alienware, Vodoo or Sager will soon launch similar products.
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3.12.2005 Could a three-core CPU be coming your way?
Tom's Hardware Guide ran one of the most unusual benchmarks I've ever seen, having taken a dual-CPU system and put two different CPUs in it. Now, anyone who knows anything about dual-CPU systems knows this is a no-no. Most motherboard makers don't even recommend mismatching steppings, let alone anything else. And sure enough, Tom's Hardware Guide had its fair share of trouble getting the system to work in such an odd configuration, but it got the system to work.
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3.12.2005 Intel Readies Merom-L Core
In a bid to make manufacturing of Celeron M 500 CPUs economically more efficient, Intel will introduce a shrunk-down core in the near future.
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9.4.2007 Xbox360 Core Price Drop In UK
Yesterday the Xbox360 Core pack received an official price drop of Ł10 in United Kingdom, and now costs Ł199.
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27.8.2006 Intel Announces Quad-Core Processor
At an early morning keynote address to open the semi-annual Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco, CEO Paul Otellini confirmed what hardware industry resources had already known for weeks: A Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor is coming this November for the enthusiast segment of the PC market, with Core 2 Quad processors for the mainstream segment and Quad-Core Xeon server processors soon to follow in the first quarter of next year.
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27.9.2006 Quad-Core Xeon System Previewed
Tyan Computer is showing off one of the first hardware systems containing Quad-Core Xeon 5300 processors at the Intel Developer Forum here today.
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17.10.2006 Core 2 E4300 vs. E6300 Overclocking Battle
This year Intel plans to greatly expand the Core 2 Duo family by introducing at least eight new processors. Surprisingly however, only two of these new processors are planned to be clocked higher than the existing E6700.
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25.1.2007 Apple Launches 8 Core Mac Pro
Meet the latest addition to the Mac Pro family: The world’s first 3.0GHz, 8-core Intel Xeon-based Mac Pro. Consider the bar officially raised.
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5.4.2007 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 review
Late last year Intel unveiled the world’s first quad-core desktop processor, stealing a bit of thunder from the amazing Core 2 Duo range. For a whopping $999, the new Core 2 Extreme processor would become Intel's new flagship product.
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16.7.2007 Microsoft Promises to Lock Down the Windows Core
No matter how bulletproofed will Microsoft manage to get the Windows operating system, there will always be an alternative avenue for attacks. And while targeting the Windows core, one of the preferred methods for attackers is to piggyback ride on faulty and vulnerable third-party drivers, in this manner gaining kernel level access.
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14.11.2007 8-core Mac Pros and Xserves have arrived
Apple has introduced a new Mac Pro (starting at just $2,799) with eight processor cores, a new system architecture and Mac OS X Leopard, as well as a new Xserve (starting at just $2,999), a 1U rack-optimized server that includes an unlimited client license for Mac OS X Server Leopard.
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8.1.2008 Intel to show 8-core Xeon on February
Intel will give its first public look at an 8-core Xeon processor in less than two weeks at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the show's schedule (PDF) reveals.
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29.1.2009 Microsoft reports rise in core business profits
Microsoft rode a wave of global strength in the personal computer market to report growth in profit and sales in the first quarter of its 2006 fiscal year, slightly exceeding analysts' expectations.
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Dual-core desktop duel: AMD vs. Intel
What would the results of a dual-core desktop CPU fight look like? Many people equate Windows PCs with Intel Pentium processors (and soon will likely be doing the same with Macs), but we've seen dual-core CPU AMD systems power ahead of dual-core Intel-based PCs on more than one occasion.
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12.12.2005 Microsoft Restructures Its Windows Core OS Division
Microsoft has restructured its Windows Core Operating System Division into five teams in a move designed to better focus on PC hardware and provide a richer set of customer solutions.
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13.10.2006 Intel to Launch Core 2 Quad Chip in January
Intel plans to launch the third model of its four-core processor in January, continuing its efforts to stay ahead of Advanced Micro Devices on the next-generation processor family.
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20.12.2006 8-Core Mac Pro and new displays slated for January
Sources indicated to MacScoop that Apple is readying the launch of renewed Mac Pro and Cinema Display line-ups in January.
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31.12.2006 Building a Core 2 Duo gaming system for under $1000
When it comes time to build a new computer or upgrade an existing platform most of us will be doing it according to a set budget, always hoping to get the best bang for our buck.
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3.1.2007 Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Spotted in the Wild
Intel's "Conroe" refresh parts overclocked and benchmarked on XtremeSystems.
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3.2.2007 Introducing the AMD Phenom quad core processor
Delivering a four-core foreshadowing of innovations to come for PC enthusiasts worldwide, AMD today unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom™ processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform, codenamed “FASN8.”
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14.5.2007 AMD's quad-core Barcelona coming in August
Advanced Micro Devices in August will begin selling its quad-core "Barcelona" Opteron processors, models that answer Intel's current products but soon will face stiffer competition.
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30.6.2007 Sun leaks 6-core Intel processor details
Late last month in Austria, Intel presented Sun with roadmaps discussing details of its upcoming server platforms, including the fairly secret Xeon Dunnington and Nehalem architectures.
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27.2.2008 Intel to Launch Quad-Core Chips on November 13
In a race with rival Advanced Micro Devices, Intel will bring its quad-core chips to market in a new line of Hewlett-Packard workstations due to be introduced on November 13.
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15.10.2006 Intel preps dual-core Conroe-based Pentiums?
Intel appears to have stepped up a notch its plan to ship Pentium chips based on its current desktop Core 2 Duo processor. Originally scheduled to debut as single-core parts, the post-NetBurst Pentiums will now be dualies, according to the chip giant's latest roadmaps.
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14.11.2006 Beyond dual core: 2007 desktop CPU road map
What a difference a year makes. One year ago, we were dazed, dazzled, and beguiled by the arrival of dual-core processors. Offerings from Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) had analysts, journalists, IT pros, and enthusiasts all gushing with praise for a bright new multitasking future.
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2.1.2007 Intel to launch new Core 2 Extreme CPU for Skulltrail platform
Intel is planning to launch a new desktop processor for its upcoming Skulltrail motherboard, a high-end enthusiast and gaming platform, according to sources at motherboard makers.
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16.10.2007 Microsoft Is Not Throwing Away the Windows Core and Starting from Scratch after Vista
Applause and criticism of Windows are nothing more than collateral products inherent with the success and ubiquity of the product on the operating system market.
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9.11.2007 Intel Set to Postpone Introduction of New Quad-Core Microprocessors
Intel Corp. may postpone the actual release of its quad-core microprocessors produced using 45nm process technology due to an undisclosed defect and the fact that both Intel and its partners have a lot of central processing units (CPUs) with four processing engines made using 65nm tech in stock. It is unclear whether the delay will affect the world’s largest x86 chipmaker financially.
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20.12.2007How Many CPU Cores Do You Need?
Sure, you can buy a quad-core CPU... but do you need one? Software has come a long way to support multi-threading since the first multi-core CPUs were
released, but how much better are four CPU cores than one, two, or three?
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30.04.2009Multi-Core Confrontation: Core 2 Quad Q6600 vs. Core 2 Duo E6850
While AMD keeps postponing the launch of their quad-core processors to the end of this year “ beginning of next, Intel Company is offering very
affordable quad-core CPUs from Core 2 Quad family. However, can Core 2 Quad processors be regarded as a worthy alternative to popular dual-core
solutions?
The Intel processor price cut that occurred a month ago turned into an important milestone on the multi-core
processors way to user computer systems. The price of quad-core processors has finally dropped down to the level of dual-core solutions. To be more
exact, the youngest model in the official Core 2 Quad lineup is priced exactly the same as the top Core 2 Duo CPU. This price, by the way, is set at
$266, which seems quite sufficient to make processors with four computational cores much more popular than they used to be before.
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01.09.2007Sony Ericsson and ARM announce multi-core mobile CPU
In a world where smartphones are becoming more and more featured, it left one to wonder how it would take before the devices went the way of the
personal computer a picked up another core or three. Wonder no more, as Sony Ericsson and ARM have announced the world's first multi-core (or,
SMP, Symmetric Multi Processing) CPU for mobiles. This new CPU will be running an a device at a private event, with Symbian OS installed, at the
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. This new developments means the future Sony Ericsson phones (and future phones in general) will be able to run
more applications at once, whilst reducing the overall power consumption.
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17.02.2009Intel Ships High-End Quad Core Chips
Intel began the multi-core era
by beating AMD to the punch by
releasing its first quad-core
chips for high-end
workstations and servers. Two
families would sport the
architecture: the Intel Xeon
5300 series processors, and
the Intel Core 2 Extreme
QX6700...
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14.11.2006Intel: Multi-Core Shipments Prevail over Single-Core
During a presentation at the
Bank of America technology
conference, Stacy Smith, vice
president and assistant of
chief financial officer at
Intel, announced that in Q4
2006 over 50% of the CPUs that
the company shipped in the
fourth quarter contained two
or more cores. The world's
biggest supplier of x86
microprocessor is essentially
spitting out more multi-core
chips than single-cores.
Intel's multi-core product
line-up includes Core 2 Duo
chips for desktops and
notebooks, Core 2 Extreme and
Pentium D for desktop
computers, Core Duo for mobile
systems, Xeon processors for
dual-socket and multi-socket
computers, quad-core Core 2
Extreme and Core 2 Quad chips
for desktops and quad-core
Xeon 5300-series for
dual-processor servers.
Intel's single-core offerings
only consist of low-cost
Celeron and Pentium 4 chips as
well as Xeon processors.
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23.02.2007Intel details R&D on multi-core
In a handful of technical
papers presented the week of
June 11, Intel Corp. is
disclosing more details about
its research into the future
of multi-core processors.
Highlights include work on
a new ultra low power
chip-to-chip interconnect that
hits data rates up to 15
Gbits/second as well as
techniques to spread jobs more
effectively across multiple
cores and their memories.
Intel would not say when any
of the advances might appear
in its commercial products.
"Eventually we will
need to get to deliver
terabits/s of data to a
multi-core die," said Randy
Mooney, an Intel Fellow and
director of I/O research. But
using today's techniques that
could require a whopping 100W
of power, he said. ..
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14.06.2007Triple-core and quad-core processors show up in sub-$600 PCs
The competition between AMD and Intel may appear to have calmed down a bit over recent months, but the retail market shows every sign that a new
battle has begun: Following the dual-core fight, it now appears that triple-cores in fact are increasing the pressure on dual-core PCs and quad-core
PCs have officially arrived in the mainstream.
For about half a year it seemed like entry-level quad-core PCs were stuck in the
$800 to $1000 range, with Intels Core 2 Quad Q6600 controlling supply and demand. But suddenly we are seeing a whole new dynamic in this market. Large
retail chains are selling what we would consider cheap multi-core processor systems that are competing with some aging dual-core systems still in
inventory and are pushing more up-to-date dual-core PCs below $500 and even into the sub-$300 segment.
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22.04.2008Multi-core processors: Interplay of hardware and programming models
Multicore architecture has created a little frenzy among programming language designers and software developers to hone up their concurrent and
parallel programming skills. But is this push one way? Is it just the hardware driving the software and language design in multi-core era? Rajesh
Karmani continues his article series on TG Daily which focuses on a dramatic shift in software development techniques to help developers exploit the
horsepower of multi-core processors.
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21.05.2008Nokia working on multi-core MID
Ultra-portable computers seem to be all the rage these days, and as Unwired View is reporting, Finland-based cellphone manufacturer Nokia is expanding
their share in the market. The device that Nokia is producing is based on ARM's multi-core Sparrow processor, and will be running Linux to
support its unique widget-based interface. It's unclear on what exactly this looks like, but apparently each running application gets its own
semi-transparent widget to put its content in, and also multiple running applications can be stored, "for months." As for the hardware itself, the
prototype features diamond shaped keys, elevated slightly, and its display can tilt in several different ways for different functions.
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26.02.2009Imagination Technologies announce multi-core mobile GPUs
The Register is reporting that Imagination Technologies has recently announced two multi-core graphics processing units, for use in mobile devices.
The chips are being called the POWERVR™ SGX543MP, with the last two letters on the end of SGX543MP being replaced with 2 or 16, to represent the
variance in the amount of cores. This news is rather interesting as MacRumors says Apple is an investor and licensee of Imagination Technologies, and
they are the company who currently makes the graphics chips for the iPhone and iPhone 3G. This could lead one to believe that these new chips will be
included in a new revision of Apple's iPhone, expected to be announced/released around June or July this year.
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19.03.2009Intel planning quad-core notebook CPUs for 3Q08
Intel is going to launch eleven 45nm dual-core CPUs for notebooks in the first half of next year, and the company is also planning to launch quad-core
versions in the third quarter, according to sources at motherboard makers.
Intel will launch a 45nm quad-core notebook CPU
codenamed Penryn QC comprised of two Penryn cores in a multi-chip package. The CPU will adopt Socket P (35mm Ă— 35mm) and have 12MB L2 Cache, 1066MHz
FSB and 45W maximum TDP.
Initially the Penryn QC will only appear in the Core 2 Extreme series and most Montevina platform
notebooks will not support the quad-core CPU, added the sources...
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19.09.2007Software Aimed at Multi-Core Chips Gets AMD Boost
All software developers who
are interested in tweaking
their applications for
multi-core microprocessors,
from large corporations to
individuals, have gained a
boost from Advanced Micro
Devices Incorporated at a
Sunnyvale, California
developer center. The
continuous upgrades to the AMD
Developer Center, which offers
hundreds of computers with
multi-core AMD
microprocessors, are aimed at
helping software developers
improve the speed and
capabilities of software
running on multi-core-powered
servers, laptops and desktops.
AMD announced that later in
the second quarter, the center
will add computers with AMD's
latest multi-core
microprocessor, the Quad-Core
AMD Opteron processor
code-named "Barcelona".
AMD is also working
with software tool makers and
the open source community to
further build tools aimed at
AMD Opteron multi-core
processors. PGI compilers, for
example, can be used to
generate a single PGI Unified
Binary that is fully optimized
for both AMD and Intel
Corporation microprocessors,
AMD said, giving developers
the benefit of a single x64
platform to work from.
Microsoft Corporation and Sun
Microsystems Incorporated are
also working with AMD to make
sure Microsoft's Visual
Studio and Sun's Studio
development software are
tweaked for top performance on
AMD quad-core microprocessors,
AMD said. The chip maker is
also updating its own
performance libraries for its
quad-cores.
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16.05.2007Next Gen. iPhone to have a quad-core processor?
At MacWorld, ZNet has been hearing rumors of a quad-core iPhone coming. This new four core "iPhone Quad" is said to slaughter pretty much every
portable gaming platform on the market.
The new iPhone Quad will come with the firmware 3.0. Although Apple has not mentioned firmware
3.0 at all yet, it is expected to be released along with the new iPhone Quad.
Imagination Technologies will announce the PowerVR SGX543
at CES tomorrow, it’s the firm’s first multi-core capable GPU technology and Apple could have access to it.
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09.01.2009IBM's 4.0GHz, eight-core Power7 to fuel 10 petaflop beast
IBM looks set to join the seriously multi-core set with the Power7 chip. Internal documents seen by The Register show Power7 with eight cores
per processor and also some very, very large IBM boxes based on the chip.
The IBM documents have the eight-core Power7 being
arranged in dual-chip modules. So, that's 16-cores per module. As IBM tells it, each core will show 32 gigaflops of performance, bringing each chip
to 256 gigaflops. Just on the gigaflop basis, that makes Power7 twice as fast per core as today's dual-core Power6 chips, although the actual clock
rate on the Power7 chips should be well below the 5.0GHz Power6 speed demon.
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12.07.2008Demand for Quad-Core Processors Accelerating “ Intel
After a relatively slow start quad-core processors are beginning to rapidly gain popularity among various customers. Paul Otellini, chief executive of
Intel Corp. said during a conference with financial analysts on Tuesday that shipments of chips with four processing engines topped three million
units last quarter.
śWe launched our first quad-core processor in November of last year, and by the
second quarter
had shipped our first million units. With demand for our quad-core products accelerating, we shipped over 2 million units in the third quarter
alone. We now offer over 20 unique quad-core processor designs,ť said Mr. Otellini during the conference call with financial analysts.
Growing demand towards quad-core microprocessor is a result of relatively moderate pricing on them, which begins at $266 for Intel Core 2
Quad Q6600 as well as availability of software that takes advantage of multi-core chips.
winbeta.org - 18.10.2007
AMD launches dual-core MP
Opterons; Intel responds with
low-voltage Xeons
Sunnyvale (CA) -
Having won one market victory
with the first introduction of
multicore processors for
multi-processor platforms --
and not wanting anyone to
forget it too soon -- AMD
announced this morning the
release of its fourth series
of three new Opteron series
processors, topped by the
Dual-core Model 880 and
followed up by the Dual-core
Model 280, both of which will
be available
immediately.
<
br>The Opteron 880 is geared
toward four- to eight-way (4P
- 8P) servers and 4P
workstations, while the 280
addresses the 2P server
market, and the new Dual-core
Model 180 -- available in late
October -- is geared toward
single-processor servers. In
1000-unit quantities, the 880
will sell for $2649, with the
280 selling for $1299 and the
180 for $799.
As
John Williams, AMD's director
for server product planning,
told Tom's Hardware Guide,
the company's new dual-core
price strategy is to equalize
entry-level dual-core prices
with top-tier single-core.
With the entry of three new
models, prices of existing
dual-core product lines have
been reduced to single-core
levels. For example, AMD's
top-of-the-line two-way
single-core Models 252 and 254
are priced equivalently with
the reduced prices of its
two-way dual-core Models 265
and 270: $690 and $851,
respectively. "In the
customer's mind," said
Williams, "that's a
no-brainer... Over time, the
migration to dual-core is the
logical path." ..
winbeta.org - 28.09.2005
Apple Debuts Eight-Core Mac Pro
Apple on Wednesday refreshed
its Mac Pro line, adding a new
8-core behemoth using Intel's
new "Clovertown"
quad-core Xeon processors.
Also, a new quad-core model
was introduced...
betanews.com - 04.04.2007
Intel announces "Core 2 Duo on steroids"
Even though Intel is probably
the industry's biggest
proponent of multi-core
computing and threaded
programming, it today
announced a single thread
acceleration technology at IDF
Beijing. Mobility chief Mooly
Eden revealed a type of single-core
overclocking built in to its
upcoming Santa Rosa
platform. It seems like a
tacit admission from Intel
that multi-threaded apps
haven't caught up with the
availability of multi-core
CPUs.
Intel also
foreshadowed a major
announcement tomorrow
around Universal Extensible
Firmware Interface (UEFI) --
the replacement for BIOS that
has so far only been used in
Intel Macs. "We have been
working with Microsoft,"
Intel hinted.
neowin.net - 17.04.2007
Hypervisors in Embedded Systems
Mike Glass: I attended Embedded World in Nurnberg last week. The number one application I saw over and over again was embedded devices based on
multi-core processors. If you think of Microsofts entire range of embedded operating systems “ Micro-framework at the low end, Windows CE (the only
real-time OS (RTOS)), and Windows XP; I expect multi-core processors to target systems built for Windows XP Embedded (XPe) first. This is because the
cost of a multi-core processor is higher than a single-core and at least for now more likely in systems that can absorb the roughly $55 cost of an XPe
client. But the interesting twist is that the value of multiple cores is that you can run an RTOS in one or more cores and run XPe in other cores. XPe
would be used to run Windows applications “ say some kind of Human Machine interface (HMI), where the RTOS would run a factory control application
that requires a guarantee of a processors time slice at some frequency that only Windows CE could deliver (or RTOS competitors like WindRivers VxWorks
or a custom Linux solution).
winbeta.org - 04.03.2008
Intel Reportedly to Simplify Brand-Names
In the recent years the
product portfolio of Intel
Corp. extended tremendously as
a result of platformization as
well as transition to
multi-core technologies,
making it uneasy for customers
to determine the product they
need. But that is going to
change, once the company
performs global platform
simplification process in the
beginning of 2008.
It was already reported that
the world's largest chipmaker
will get rid of Intel Viiv and
Intel vPro brand-names going
forward, but apparently the
changes will be much more
substantial, according to
reports from Japanese and
Taiwanese web-sites. For
instance, Intel Core 2
processors will lose their
"Solo", "Duo" or "Quad"
differentiators, but will be
marketed under Intel Core 2
brand-names. Intel Pentium D
and Intel Pentium Dual-Core
chips, despite of the fact
that they are based on
different micro-architectures,
will be sold under Intel
Pentium label. Nevertheless,
Intel Celeron, Intel Core
Extreme and Intel Xeon
trademarks will be
retained.
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neowin.net - 07.08.2007
