Australian PC Maker Leaks Details on Intel's Quad-core Laptop Chip
	If you happen to find yourself somewhere near "the land down under" and you are looking to acquire a new high-end notebook, then you should check out the offer of PC maker Pioneer Computers. The Australian manufacturer is now taking preorders for laptops equipped with the yet unreleased Intel quad-core mobile processors. According to Pioneer Computers, the new CPUs will soon be made available. The exact date for when that migh ... [read more >>]
	11 July 2008, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Adds New Phenoms to Its Desktop CPU Lineup
	AMD is taking a shot at the desktop processor market with the release of three new Phenom processors. One of these CPUs, the new Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition, will become AMD's flagship model, taking the place of the company's previous title holder, the Phenom X4 9850. Unlike the Black Edition Phenom, the other two models are somewhat of a surprise, as they are built as low-power quad-cores. These two new procs are dubbed Phenom ... [read more >>]
	01 July 2008, 03:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

MSI Board Supports 5GHz Overclocked CPU
	This year's Computex show held in Taipei, Taiwan is just the place to be for all of you overclocking enthusiasts. That is, only if we’re to trust the statements of the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturer, MSI, according to which it’s prepping an impressive overclocking show. As indicated by a recent press release from MSI, the company is going to collaborate with a well-known global overclocking site, called Coolaler, in order to [ADMA ... [read more >>]
	04 June 2008, 08:16GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Goes Greener with New Energy-Efficient Quad-Core Opteron Lineup
	AMD might have lost the race with Intel in terms of processor performance and core count, but it still rules on the energy-efficient CPU market. The company has just unveiled a new highly-efficient quad-core Opteron line-up, primarily targeted at data center and corporate servers. According to the company, the new CPU offerings are the industry's first energy-efficient x86 server processor running on four cores. The chip sports an ... [read more >>]
	12 May 2008, 05:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Quad-Core Processors Go Mainstream in HP's Desktops
	The much-hyped quad-core processors are usually associated with high-end computing and budget-busting price tags. However, the quad-core behemoths have started to show up in consumer desktop systems manufactured by system integrators such as Hewlett-Packard, Gateway or eMachines. Such consumer-level systems are powered by both Intel's and AMD's flagship processors. While Intel's offerings are more powerful and ... [read more >>]
	30 April 2008, 04:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel: 50% Summer Price Slash for Quad-Core Chips
	Intel has just posted the updated price list for its select quad-core processors. The new offerings are up to 50 percent cheaper, depending on the frequency clock and the market it addresses. More than that, Intel posted two new processor models in the Celeron and Core 2 Duo families. The updated list includes the Core 2 Quad Q6700 processor running at 2.66 GHz clock speeds. Pricing for the Q6700 fell from the initial $530 to ... [read more >>]
	21 April 2008, 11:44GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Tri-Core Chips, More Expensive than Quad-Cores
	AMD's tri-core processors in the Phenom family have been designed to cover the price and performance gap between dual-core and quad-core chips. According to AMD, they are expected to deliver superior performance as compared to the dual-core offerings, but at the same time, to keep costs lower than users would have to pay for quad-core chips. Although the explanation makes sense when laid on paper, it seems that the actual ... [read more >>]
	15 April 2008, 06:50GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Might Terminate the Skulltrail Gaming Processor
	The recently published price list for the newly-introduced Atom processors might shed new light over the future of the Skulltrail processor. Despite the fact that it is one of the most powerful CPUs commercially available on the market, its availability might reach a premature end. Intel's updated price list especially released for the Atom chips also mentions the Skulltrail CPU Core 2 Extreme QX9775, that comes with a pr ... [read more >>]
	05 April 2008, 03:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel's Skulltrail Quad-Core Chip Gets Listed
	Intel's highest-end processor QX9775 has been listed on the company's website, which indicates that it has finally reached mass-availability. Targeted especially at the high-end and enthusiast markets, the quad-core QX9775 is a tweaked server chip that forms the heart of the high-end gaming Skulltrail platform. The QX9775 comes with 3.2GHz core clock speeds, 12MB of L2 cache, and full support for 1600MHz front side b ... [read more >>]
	28 March 2008, 11:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel's Q-Series Quads: Inexpensive, but Hard to Find
	Intel has started shipping units of its Q-series quad-core processors, after a long trench of delays. Initially announced for early January this year, the chip manufacturer delayed their introduction a couple of times. The company finally started shipping its 45-nanometer Q-series of mainstream-oriented chips, but their availability is currently limited to PC vendors and system integrators only. Recent reports claim that the Q ... [read more >>]
	27 March 2008, 11:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

NextComputing Releases Intel's Harpertown Quads Into the Wild
	Workstation vendor NextComputing has just integrated Intel's low wattage L5420 Xeon 45-nanometer quad core chips into its NextDimension "flextop" lineup. "The Intel Xeon processor 5400 series helps enable NextComputing to provide a unique form factor in the high-performance workstation market," said Boyd Davis, General Manager, Intel Server Platforms Group Marketing. Intel's ... [read more >>]
	26 March 2008, 21:41GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel Confirms Mobile Quad-Core Shipments Later This Year
	Intel has just confirmed that the company will start shipping its mobile quad-core processors later this year, as previously reported here at Softpedia. According to company officials, the upcoming quad-core powerhorses will be based on the Intel Core 2 Du ... [read more >>]
	15 March 2008, 06:58GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel's 45-Nanometer Technology, Too Hot to Handle?
	The 45-nanometer technology seems to be the source of CPU manufacturers' headache. AMD has completely failed in delivering the new processors built around the 45-nm technology, and it seems that there will be some other couple of months until they get the first working CPU. According to the rumors emerging from the industry, Intel is almost in the same weak position. It is true that it has already achieved some working pr ... [read more >>]
	27 December 2007, 05:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Are Quad-Cores Really Worth The Costs?
	PC vendors and producers are launching more and more systems based on the dual and quad core architectures. They promise users unparalleled performance gains, but the machines are worth a small fortune. So consumers are beginning to wonder if an upgrade to one of these wonder systems is really worth the cost and the bother. "Most users don't even use the processor that they have now if they've purchased something within the ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 10:26GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Intel's Quad-Cores Getting Cheaper
	It is reported that Intel sent a message to its more than 130.000 resellers and white-box builders worldwide, informing them that the company will cut prices of its still new quad processor family next week. The move of the giant chip producer can be seen as a way of responding to AMD's similar move, in a price war that lasted for some months already. AMD now has almost all its products at a much smaller price (many AMD processors are ... [read more >>]
	16 July 2007, 09:52GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Barcelona Is Coming
	AMD has been through some rough times throughout its existence but lately they have suffered one of the worst hits in the history. Now I don't know whether it's about the acquisition of Ati or the fact that Core 2 Duos are faster. Perhaps it's a combination of both. Anyway, AMD lost a big chunk of its market share, R600 is late and HD 2900 XT cards are not as fast as 8800 Ultras, Barcelona is still on pre-production. And the ... [read more >>]
	21 June 2007, 05:31GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Ready to Roll Out the FX-80 and FX-90 Series
	At least on paper it is. Because in practice, Barcelona's appearance was almost inexistent. Few bechmarks ran on AMDs native quad-core series and I have to say that I wasn't very impressed. Barcelona's 128-bit FPUs coupled with a tuned memory controller helped it perform on par with INTEL's quad cores (in terms of clock/clock benchies). Unfortunately INTEL has about 1GHz over Barcelona and while it's not faster it ... [read more >>]
	15 June 2007, 12:06GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Quad Cores are Running Late
	Lately the CPU world has been suffering from some serious architectural changes. While that happens pretty often, such a change generally ends up as a new technology ready to be integrated in a future CPU. Well it seems that not everything can go as smooth as it should since it seems that AMD has suffered from some serious failures that could affect the shippings of the new K10 cores. A quick tour of the K10 architecture rev ... [read more >>]
	13 June 2007, 09:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Prepares the Phenom-compatible RD790/RS790 Chipsets
	AMD's Barcelona and Agena CPUs are almost here, but don't expect out-of-the box compatibility with the current AM2 motherboards. Before the emergence of AM3 sockets, AMD will release AM2+ designs to support the new quad-cores. There are also a couple of new chipsets to be integrated in the AM2+ motherboards. These chipsets will only be DDR2-compatible. However, this shouldn't mean that Intel will claim supremacy with th ... [read more >>]
	18 May 2007, 09:15GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New Price Cuts for Intel's Quad-Cores
	It seems that Intel really wants to obliterate AMD as soon as possible. You may still remember that AMD was the last to announce a price cut for their current CPUs a couple of weeks ago, as the new Phenom processors are almost ready for launch. And what is Intel doing now? Right, its time for a price cut on their own Core 2 Quad CPUs. Seeing AMD aggressively advertising their new quad-core Barcelona and Agena CPUs, Intel once again pu ... [read more >>]
	17 May 2007, 10:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Showcases Dual Quad-core Systems
	Just when we thought AMD would give in to internal problems and let Intel takeover the entire CPU market, the Sunnyvale company pops up with all kinds of mouth-watering details on their soon-to-be released products. At a demo show held in Monterey, CA, AMD displayed an interesting system powered by the latest Agena FX quad-core processors that ran in tandem with HD 2900XT graphics cards and DDR2-1066 memory modules. Agena FX is suppose ... [read more >>]
	11 May 2007, 09:09GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD Phenom CPUs - the New "Stars" of the Show
	AMD has decided to come up with a new name for the upcoming high-end Agena-based CPUs. Thus, the next-generation K10-derived "Stars" family will include single, dual and quad-core processors, which will be commercialized under three different brand names: Phenom (high-end), Athlon 64 (mainstream) and Sempron (entry level). An official chart presents the AMD Phenom FX CPU as AMD's quad core flagship for the s ... [read more >>]
	04 May 2007, 07:10GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

AMD's Agena Processor is a Serious Overclocker
	When Intel came forth with the Core microarchitecture, everybody was simply delighted at the fact that a processor could overclock to as much as 100% of its stock frequency by using air cooling alone. But back then, AMD had only the K8 architecture to show off and people were already aware of what its capabilities were. So Intel got almost 90% of the x86 processors market, while AMD was left with a trail of breadcrumbs to help th ... [read more >>]
	20 April 2007, 10:11GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Quad-Core CPUs to Become Half of Mainstream by 2009
	If you are considering having an upgrade in the near future, among the things that score high on your list of components is the CPU. Basically, it can give you the biggest performance boost, or it can seriously set you back a couple hundred dollars, or both. But according to one of the most famous companies that observe the market and give predictions for future years, iSuppli, quad-core processors will be present in “half of all ... [read more >>]
	19 April 2007, 06:39GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Another Monster from Intel
	Or was it two heads are better than one? I don't know, in this technologically advanced era that we are living in, what today is new, tomorrow is old, and what we know now, might not be as important in the near future. In order to stay ahead, you have to be in the line of fire, make a stand in front of others by being the news, not just reading them. Such is the case with Intel, they are constantly trying to showcase tha ... [read more >>]
	10 April 2007, 03:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The G700 Quad-Core Intel Platform
	When you try to make something work but you know that the entire process is painstakingly long, you often resort to unorthodox methods, a way of overcoming the hardship through some thoughtful innovation. Like take for instance the simple process of making ice cubes, to go down well with that whisky, if you just have the water and the refrigerator, the key element is still missing, so it's easier to just go out and buy a pla ... [read more >>]
	04 April 2007, 08:30GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

SiS Signs Chipset License for Intel Core 2 Quad Processors
	Has this thought ever crossed your worried mind “what do I have to do in order to manufacture x86 processors?” I guess not, well I came across this idea thinking why aren't that many processor manufacturers out there, I mean, look at the video card segment of the market, new companies are spawning from each and every part of the world, NAND memory manufacturers, same thing, but not processors. So I came to consider someth ... [read more >>]
	29 March 2007, 09:17GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia