Intel quad-core server and desktop processors will arrive this year instead of next, Chief Executive Paul Otellini said Wednesday, firing a new competitive volley against rival AMD. "We notified customers we're pulling in both the desktop and server (launch) of the first quad-core processors into the fourth quarter of this year from the first half of 2007," Otellini said.
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Don't forget that those processors mentioned are still based on that old Netburst technology, which basically means that Apple won't use them. "real" quad core processors that also have a sane power consumption will follow later in 2007 according to intel.
You might actually wish to read the artile before making a fool of yourself; these quad processors are using the new core architecture, not the netburst; the netburst was formally killed off once the core 2 was shipped - hence the reason why the netburst based processors were being sold off in a 'fire sale' for the last few months.
As for Apple, it'll be interesting to see whether or not Apple uses them in iMac or whether they decide to keep it specially for the PowerMac replacement or the Xserver.
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Wiki suggests that Clovertown is actually two woodcrest cores, so actually it's not netburst but Core-based...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core_Microarchitecture
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Mark
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2005-07-06
Don't forget that those processors mentioned are still based on that old Netburst technology, which basically means that Apple won't use them. "real" quad core processors that also have a sane power consumption will follow later in 2007 according to intel.