Intel sold quad-core chips from November 13

In a race against rival AMD, Intel will launch the first quad-core chip to market on the occasion of the launch of the new HP workstation line on November 13.

HP does not disclose the specific model and price, but according to experts, it is likely that HP will use Intel's Xeon 5300 chip and this workstation line will be designed to run high-end applications such as Seismic analysis and virtualization technology from Ansys, Autodesk, Landmark Graphics and Parametric Technology.

Thus, Intel was faster than AMD in the release of the four-core chip to the market, an important victory in the tumultuous year of the Chip Giant: constantly appearing on newspapers because of layoffs and Poor financial results.

AMD: slower but better?

Meanwhile, AMD plans to release quad-core chips in the middle of next year, with a monolithic design statement (Intel's quad-core chip is essentially two dual-core chips that are "sticking together"). ) its superiority is superior to Intel's.

However, since there is not yet any hardware device to verify this statement, analysts themselves have been divided into the idea that Intel's "2-chip" design has a great effect on performance. is not.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini has defended this design at the Intel Developer Forum last month, arguing that customers are only interested in the computer's speed and performance, rather than How are the chips inside the machine packed?

If chips typically only reach 3GHz-4GHz, multi-core chips can significantly speed up processing for desktops and servers without consuming too much power or giving off too much heat. Moreover, they also allow computers to perform more tasks at the same time more efficiently.

The game market will be the first test for quad-core chips, because Intel sold Core 2 Extreme chips to 13 gaming PC makers (including Dell, Gateway and VoodooPC). The company also plans to offer the next Core 2 Quad chip for mass-market desktops in the first quarter of 2007.

Trong Cam