Intel Introduces Three New Quad-Cores
On Monday, Intel announced the latest maneuver in its campaign to halt the growth of archrival AMD, releasing three quad-core chips at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show.
The latest release brings the total number of quad-core models it offers to nine. In fact, the company now offers a whopping 29 dual-core and quad-core chips for laptops, desktops, and servers alike.
Two of Intel's new quad-cores are Xeon chips designed for the entry-level server market. The third -- called the Core 2 Quad Q6600 -- is destined for high-end gamers and home users who want power, power, and more power on their PCs.
Much like a highway has multiple lanes to handle greater volumes of traffic, a quad-core processor has multiple lanes to handle potentially conflicting functions which would traditionally bring a conventional processor to its knees
Pure Power
Indeed, "power" has become one of quad-core's synonyms. A quad-core design packs four processors onto one chip, and like a shot of steroids to muscle, it lets the quad-core machine run demanding software much more quickly than single- or dual-core chips.
In a published statement, Intel said the new new quad-cores were expressly designed for high-end, media-intensive programs like Adobe After Effects and Premier Pro, Windows Media Encoder, and WinDVD.
The performance once requiring a supercomputer is now on the desktop
Business Use
Intel also released two quad-core Xeon 3200-series processors designed for use in entry-level enterprise servers. The first quad-core Xeon clocks in at 2.13 GHz and the second at 2.4 GHz, a difference that's seen in the chips' price of $690 and $851, respectively.
And while those numbers are nothing to sneeze at -- above all for I.T. managers working on tight budgets -- Intel's new chips could get a boost from Windows Vista, released for business use in late November.
Typically, operating system upgrades do tend to drive an increased need to move to the next generation of hardware . The vast majority of upgrades to Windows Vista will not be based on applying Vista over XP on existing hardware. Rather, they will be based on applying Vista on new machines that are to be shipped in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Vista Features
Vista, will push managers to think long and hard about their hardware, and some will make the quad-core jump to maximize the latest features.
A lot of the security functionality of Vista will now be able to run more efficiently in a quad-core environment than in a single-core, noting that quad-cores' capacity to thread programs -- that is, assign different computing tasks to different processors, to run them in parallel -- will be especially useful on Vista.
The latest release brings the total number of quad-core models it offers to nine. In fact, the company now offers a whopping 29 dual-core and quad-core chips for laptops, desktops, and servers alike.
Two of Intel's new quad-cores are Xeon chips designed for the entry-level server market. The third -- called the Core 2 Quad Q6600 -- is destined for high-end gamers and home users who want power, power, and more power on their PCs.
Much like a highway has multiple lanes to handle greater volumes of traffic, a quad-core processor has multiple lanes to handle potentially conflicting functions which would traditionally bring a conventional processor to its knees
Pure Power
Indeed, "power" has become one of quad-core's synonyms. A quad-core design packs four processors onto one chip, and like a shot of steroids to muscle, it lets the quad-core machine run demanding software much more quickly than single- or dual-core chips.
In a published statement, Intel said the new new quad-cores were expressly designed for high-end, media-intensive programs like Adobe After Effects and Premier Pro, Windows Media Encoder, and WinDVD.
The performance once requiring a supercomputer is now on the desktop
Business Use
Intel also released two quad-core Xeon 3200-series processors designed for use in entry-level enterprise servers. The first quad-core Xeon clocks in at 2.13 GHz and the second at 2.4 GHz, a difference that's seen in the chips' price of $690 and $851, respectively.
And while those numbers are nothing to sneeze at -- above all for I.T. managers working on tight budgets -- Intel's new chips could get a boost from Windows Vista, released for business use in late November.
Typically, operating system upgrades do tend to drive an increased need to move to the next generation of hardware . The vast majority of upgrades to Windows Vista will not be based on applying Vista over XP on existing hardware. Rather, they will be based on applying Vista on new machines that are to be shipped in 2007, 2008, and 2009.
Vista Features
Vista, will push managers to think long and hard about their hardware, and some will make the quad-core jump to maximize the latest features.
A lot of the security functionality of Vista will now be able to run more efficiently in a quad-core environment than in a single-core, noting that quad-cores' capacity to thread programs -- that is, assign different computing tasks to different processors, to run them in parallel -- will be especially useful on Vista.
posted by Kintu at
7:40 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home