Still, while the new CPUs represent AMD's desktop high-end, they only stack up against Intel's mid-range Core i5 family, and even against that line-up they only edge ahead in heavily threaded testing.
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In mid-April, Intel announced more than 20 customers for its new chips, including long-time laptop makers Fujitsu, Lenovo, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, Sharp and Toshiba.
Since mid-2011, Intel has led the industry in enabling Ultrabook devices aimed at providing new, richer mobile computing experiences in thin, elegant and increasingly convertible and detachable designs.
Intel and HP partnered for its development in the mid-1990s, and the first product, code-named Merced, was supposed to launch in 1998.
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While many market research firms have been slashing PC growth estimates into the mid-single-digit range, Intel put up a quarter with 25% year-over-year revenue growth.
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And last week Intel announced that Merced would be delayed by six months until mid-2000 to allow more testing.
Each node has 2-8 Xeon 5650 processors providing 6-48 coes and up to 768 GB of RAM, 1.3 TB of Fusion-io ioDrive PCIe flash cards and a mid-layer of up to 1.2 TB of Intel SSD storage.
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In mid-March ThinkEquity analyst Eric Ross reported that Chinese motherboard makers were seeing drastic Intel price cuts.
He ran a spreadsheet and quickly figured out that if IBM made PCs based on the new Intel 386 chip, those powerful chips would begin eating like termites into IBM's expensive mid-range computers, which were enjoying absurdly fat margins.
This news bodes well for Intel (INTC) which is finalizing the acquistion of McAfee and is expected to close sometime in mid-2011.
It will be built initially using Intel's 0.18-micron manufacturing process, moving to 0.13-micron process in mid- to late 2001, Yu said at a press conference after his speech.
Otellini, an Intel vet dating back to 1974, says this is the first time such a review has been conducted since the mid-1980s.
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