According to AMD, both Acer Laboratories and Via Technologies have committed to developing chip sets for the company's next-generation K7 processor.

CNN: AMD, Rise launch new processors

According to Intel, Apple has apparently committed to using the company's 45nm Silverthorne chip in multiple products slated for 2008.

ENGADGET: Apple prepping devices based on Intel's Silverthorne chip

Both Intel and AMD are committed to multi-core processors, that is more than one processor in a chip.

BBC: A laptop