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Rarely have things looked as good forYou must be registered to see linksas they do right now. Exactly 18 months after the introduction of Intel's highly successful Core 2 CPUs, the chipmaker is updating them. It is shrinking the structures from 65 nm to 45 nm, and is already preparing the next step: the transition to the Nehalem platform. However, that's all still in the future, and won't come to pass until the end of 2008 at the earliest.
The revision of the Conroe architecture - in order to boost its performance, incorporate new instructions, and, most importantly, reduce power consumption - is right on schedule. Until now, Intel's Core 2 processors always played second fiddle toYou must be registered to see linksAthlon 64 X2 processors when it came to power consumption, at least in idle operation. That was also the reason why we built ourYou must be registered to see links-You must be registered to see linksYou must be registered to see linksaround an AMD platform. However, this situation has changed with the Penryn core of Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX9650.
Wow, yep.. impressive.. very very impressive.. cmon AMD! Throw us your heat.. lets see what you can do!