intel announces quad cores for november

**highlanddave** · 09-26-2006, 20:19

just hear about the update on msnbc.

here's the article from their news website:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15016757/

**Spino** · 09-26-2006, 21:31

Ooh, I'm all tingly inside.

Seriously now, AMD is also scheduled to release quad core chips in the not too distant future but I don't believe they released a timetable for their release yet. In any case it looks like AMD is going to have its work cut out for it in 2007. I seriously hope AMD can surpass or equal Intel's performance with their next generation of chips. I shudder to think what would happen if AMD was back to minor league status.

**Shaun** · 09-26-2006, 23:34

But remember AMD now own ATI, so if thier CPU's go back to minor league they will still have the awesom X1950XTX's, and will probably develope the X2000 series. AMD wil proably release a CPU-GPU-mobo combo dirt cheap, that will be a success!

**doc_bean** · 09-27-2006, 09:02

w00t, my new coimputer will be outdated by the time I get it i

**Lemur** · 09-27-2006, 14:04

Here's a slightly more detailed article. Not really clear how much real-world benefit we'll be seeing from four cores. In the near-term, anyway. I know, I know, someday all software will be multi-threaded ...