Intel gets first punch: ships dual cores

Lincoln Russell 11 Apr, 2005 at 8:12pm ET Article published in Tech

Intel has started shipping its dual core processors days ahead of AMD’s expected announcement.

“We just passed an important milestone,” Talwalkar said in a statement announcing the plans. “Intel is shipping the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840 running at 3.2 GHz and Intel(r) 955X Express Chipsets, Intel’s first dual-core processor-based platform, to our customers.”

Source: Reuters

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11 Apr 2005 ~ 8:28pm Thrax One store in the Akihibara district of Japan has two CPUs. yay.
11 Apr 2005 ~ 9:23pm Mt_Goat Dual cores means double the heat. Oh yea!
12 Apr 2005 ~ 4:10am PirateNinja heh, you guys are silly.
12 Apr 2005 ~ 4:14pm lemonlime Yikes, two prescotts? .. Maybe they should concentrate on half cores
12 Apr 2005 ~ 4:41pm Shorty Yay. I don't need to spend money on heating my house. I just buy one of those
12 Apr 2005 ~ 9:27pm GrayFox I can see it now 400C with stock cooler. throttling 2 cores insted of one.
13 Apr 2005 ~ 1:55am muddocktor It's no worse and actually better, heatwise, than having a dual xeon(Presshot core) toaster oven in your house. The power comsumption on the dual core 3.2 is only around 15% higher than the 3.73 GHz P4 hand warmer.

Source, Anandtech article.

Still it's nothing I'm very interested in. Did you notice also that Intel had to manufacture a new chipset just to work with these beasts?
13 Apr 2005 ~ 10:36pm mmonnin And the 945 is still having problems as well.