Intel and AMD show divergent multi-core strategies

Daniel Robinson
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Intel aims at big iron with eight-core Xeon, while AMD targets 12-core Opteron at mainstream two-socket market

IBM's ex5 supports Intel's Xeon 7500 with up to 3TB of memory Intel and AMD unveiled new multi-core processor chips this week that push the number of onboard cores to eight or more, allowing syst...

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