Intel gets first punch: ships dual cores

LincLinc OwnerDetroit Icrontian
edited April 2005 in Science & 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

Comments

  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    One store in the Akihibara district of Japan has two CPUs. yay.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Dual cores means double the heat. Oh yea! :wtf:
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    heh, you guys are silly.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited April 2005
    Yikes, two prescotts? .. Maybe they should concentrate on half cores :D
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    Yay. I don't need to spend money on heating my house. I just buy one of those ;D
  • GrayFoxGrayFox /dev/urandom Member
    edited April 2005
    I can see it now 400C with stock cooler. throttling 2 cores insted of one. ;D
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited April 2005
    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. :D

    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? ;D;D
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited April 2005
    And the 945 is still having problems as well.
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