The platform includes a dual core Atom processor with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology, and also features a dual-core graphics engine.
Said rigs will arrive in 16-, 19- and 22-inch flavors, and it's expected that Intel's dual-core Atom will be powering the trio.
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Separately Wednesday, Otellini addressed its smaller competitor, Advanced Micro Devices, which today took out full page ads in national newspapers to challenge Intel to a "dual core duel" to see whose chips are faster.
Using Intel's "dual core" technology, in which computations are done within two "brains" on a single chip, Otellini predicted that next year notebooks would run at five watts, desktops at 65 watts and servers at 80 watts--a drop from today's wattage.
Separately Wednesday, Otellini addressed its smaller competitor, Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ), which today took out full page ads in national newspapers to challenge Intel to a "dual core duel" to see whose chips are faster.
Available in three different configurations, customers can choose a Mac mini with the latest dual-core Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, AMD Radeon HD 6630M discrete graphics, or a quad-core Intel Core i7 powered server configuration.
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Intel says it will move from dual-core to multicore chips as fast as software firms can develop applications designed for them.
Intel recently came out with a dual-core chip, useful for low-power laptops.
As promised, we've been keeping an ear to the ground on Intel's new mobile, dual-core Atom processor, and as luck would have it a number of netbooks are popping up with the new CPU baked in...well, at least in the land down under.
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However, the dual threats of Microsoft and Intel in its core businesses is a concern.
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If that's all a bit too much for you, Intel's also rolled out two dual-core Tigertons, including 2.93GHz E7220 and the 2.4GHz E7210, each of which have a TDP of 80 watts and 8MB of shared on-chip cache.
With powerful Intel Core 2 mobile processors, eX-L 18 delivers breakthrough multi-core performance and dual-channel DDR3 memory.
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The whole lot can be selected with dual- or quad-core chips from AMD and Intel, while select configurations are equipped with NVIDIA's GeForce GT7XXM series or AMD's Radeon HD8750 discrete graphics.
The Gateway MD7801u is equipped with Intel Centrino Processor Technology and comes with an Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T6400 (2.0GHz), 4GB of Dual Channel DDR2 667MHz Memory and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD.
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The company launched other new chips, including a dual-core microprocessor for PCs, and declared itself the technological leader over Intel.
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