Tuesday, 15 May 2007
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Taking the fight with Intel even further, AMD has decided to replace its top selling Athlon with a new quad-core chip for desktop PCs called “Phenom.”
The chip, announced Monday, will reach stores in the second half of 2007.
The chip’s architecture is similar to the Barcelona Quad Core Opteron chip AMD is planning to launch in the middle of 2007.
AMD fired the first salvo in 2003 when it launched Opteron server chip but its rival Intel that has long held the top position in the chip market launched its quad-core Xeon and dual-core Core 2 Duo chips in 2006, pushing the two vendors into a price war and into a war to produce moiré powerful chips.
AMD now hopes to lure away customers from Intel's Xeon while wooing them to buy Phenom by dumping Intel's Core 2 Duo.
AMD is yet to share the feature and specification of the new chip. However people believe the time is right to bring multi-core computing as consumers use computers increasingly for day-to-day activities. |
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