Intel Spills Dual Core Info at IDF

[Ryan]

Check out some of these findings I posted here:

http://www.pcper.com/index.php#NewsID691

Looks like we are going to get a 3.2 GHz dual core CPU from Intel this spring!

[Activate: AMD]

dual core with Hyper threading!

theoretical 4 cores.. now who needs that? im sure it will be extremely expensive

[Hefner]

MSNBC article on Intel's dual cores

"The high-end desktop chip, dubbed the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition, will run at 3.2 gigahertz -- slower than the 3.8 GHz of today's top-of-the-line Pentium 4. Still, during one demonstration, it performed a task in half the time of its single-core counterpart."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7053703/

Due out sometime in Q2.

[jokerr]

those processors will fly when the softwares are programmed to be more executed on a more parallel bases. But it'll be a while till all the softwares are optimized for dualcore.