Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Nov 2006 17:49 UTC, submitted by Ken Mahan
Intel today formally launched its first set of quad-core processors, which officials say should give the chipmaker a comfortable headstart on archrival AMD (AMD quad-core offerings will not be due until the release around mid-2007). A review of one of these quad-cores has also been published.
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Intel is going to have their own interconnect technology next year and AMD isn't going to release their quad-core technology until middle of 2007, which probably means the beginning of the third quarter. I don't think that the K8L is going to compete clock for clock against the current Intel architecture either. So it doesn't look to rosy for AMD at the moment.
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I'll wait for AMD's Quad-Core CPU thank you very much.
AMD's HyperTransport bus will make the return on additional cores much greater (as well as the bandwidth between each core, and memory subsystem), unlike Intel's 'stick 4 independent chips on the same die', and they all communicate over what would be the networking equivalent of a HUB (Hyper Transport would be the equivalent of a Switch).