Intel plans to release Core 2 Duo

Yesterday (July 11), a spokesman for the world's leading computer chip maker officially confirmed that the Core 2 Duo chip will be officially released on July 27, on the occasion of an organized event. at Intel headquarters.

Also at this event Intel will officially announce the end of the Pentium era. Thus, after more than 6 years of existence, Intel's Netburst chip generation seems to be outdated and must be ceded to the Core chip.

Intel pledged that the Core 2 Duo chip will deliver better performance and less power than the latest Pentium D. dual-core chips. Earlier this year, Intel said the Core chip would be capable of operating. 20% better than AMD chips.

The desktop Core 2 Duo chip - codenamed Conroe - will be the epicenter of the July 27 event. The same version for laptops - codenamed Merom - will be released in August. Last month, Intel introduced the Xeon 5100 chip, a Core-based chip version for machines. master.

Also yesterday, Intel confirmed that the Montecito chip - the dual-core version of Itanium chip - will also be released on July 18.

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