Underneath their dueling dual-core processor announcements, demonstrations, and recent releases to the market, Intel, which unveiled its Pentium Extreme Edition chips last month, and Advanced Micro Devices, which unleashed its Opteron chips, represent very different approaches to dual-core. Both, however, achieve a significant increase in computing power for their customers, who are getting what is generally described by industry analysts as the biggest computing boost in more than two decades.
Performance Soars Amid Intel-AMD Dual-Core Duel
Posted by: Jay Lyman May 4, 2005 05:00 AMUnderneath their dueling dual-core processor announcements, demonstrations, and recent releases to the market, Intel, which unveiled its Pentium Extreme Edition chips last month, and Advanced Micro Devices, which unleashed its Opteron chips, represent very different approaches to dual-core. Both, however, achieve a significant increase in computing power for their customers, who are getting what is generally described by industry analysts as the biggest computing boost in more than two decades.