Intel quad-core chips arriving in 2006 (8 cores in Next Mac?!?!)

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Intel quad-core chips arriving in 2006

By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: July 19, 2006, 4:41 PM PDT

Intel quad-core server and desktop processors will arrive this year instead of next, Chief Executive Paul Otellini said Wednesday, firing a new competitive volley against rival Advanced Micro Devices.

"We notified customers we're pulling in both the desktop and server (launch) of the first quad-core processors into the fourth quarter of this year from the first half of 2007," Otellini said. Intel's quad-core Xeon server processor is code-named Clovertown, and its desktop processor Kentsfield.


Intel has been bruised financially in recent quarters, but is fighting to reverse market share losses. Both Intel and AMD now sell dual-core chips--those with two processing engines on a single slice of silicon--and are racing to bring multicore successors to market.

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Also from Macrumors:

"Educated speculation would therefore indicate that Apple's second revision Mac Pro workstation will feature 8 cores, and other models will all become "Quad" machines."

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1. I'd love to have one of the Pro models when they come out.

But I am unemployed, retired, worn out, used up, tossed aside. (and loving it) I am struggling to get the money for a Mini. This will be the first non pro Mac I have owned.