In January 2006 AMD and Intel are expected to release new dual core microprocessors: AMD Athlon 64 FX-64 and Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 955. The launch date for Pentium Extreme Edition 955 was set on 16th of January 2006, and by that date, other dual core processors made using the 65 nm process may get launched.

AMD Athlon 64 FX-64 should be Pentium EE 955's competitor, and it's expected to be launched in January as well, which will obviously start a new - so called - battle between the two companies.

Intel's new processors will contain two 65 nm cores and will feature 2MB L2 cache per core, totaling 4 MB of cache. A whole product line will be launched, starting from 2.8GHz processors (model 920) up to 3.4GHz (model 950) with 800MHz PSB (processor system bus). Next year, Intel's high end product will be the Pentium EE 955 with 1066MHz PSB, running at 3.46GHz and featuring Hyper-Threading technology.

On the AMD side, Athlon 64 FX-60 is said to run at 2.60GHz and have 1MB of L2 (level 2) cache on each core, totaling 2MB. Also, the processors integrates a dual-channel PC3200 memory controller and supports the Socket 939 infrastructure.