14 DAY TRIAL // The dual-core processors are the main news these days. AMD and Intel are racing to convince as many companies as possible to implement their solution.
Intel launched Intel Pentium D and shortly after AMD showcased its new Athlon 64 X2. The hardware tests from around the Web were saying all the same thing: AMD Athlon 64 X2 is more capable, but Intel Pentium D is cheaper.
Meanwhile, Intel decided to unveile more details on its forthcoming dual-core mobile chip and the company confirmed that the Yonah processor's two cores will share a single bank of cache memory. Yonah is the code name for the dual-core version of Intel's Pentium M processor for notebooks and miniature desktops, scheduled for release in the first quarter of next year.
Both companies, AMD and Intel, hope to be the main player on the dual-core market in 2015. But until now, the main question is: what are the benefits for the normal user?
Trying to answer to this dilemma, LinuxHardware.com has posted a very interesting article about dual-core. "Both Intel and AMD have concluded that pushing more MHz out of their current processors is becoming more and more difficult. How do they continue to out perform each other and make advancements at the rate that has taken place the last few years?".
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