A new goldmine for Intel: The $6 Atom processor
{mosimage} Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few year. While much of the success will depend on unit numbers, sources told TG Daily that Atom will be big cash cow for Intel….

A New Goldmine For Intel: The $6 Atom Processor
Intel is gearing up to launch what may be its most important product since the Pentium processor: The Atom CPU targets key growth markets and could ship hundreds of millions units within a few year. While much of the success will depend on unit numbers, sources told TG Daily that Atom will be big cash cow for Intel.

AMD launches tri-core assault at Intel dual-core CPUs
{mosimage} AMD’s new Phenom X3 8000 series of processors are finally ready for launch: Two new processors carry the massive burden to protect the margins of the higher-end quad-core processors, whose average retail prices have been melting away – while Intel has no problem charging substantially higher prices for its last generation dual-core and quad-core products. But the million dollar question is: Will you prefer a tri-core Phenom over a dual-core Core 2 Duo? (If you would like to skip the tri-core anyway, AMD also has new quad-cores…

Six-core Intel processors coming this year
Intel will move to a processor design that utilizes scalable cores, from two all the way to eight using another new microarchitecture, and it will phase out the front-side bus as a component of its architecture. The six-core Dunnington server CPU platform using Penryn architecture, with 16 Mb of L3 cache, goes into production as soon as this summer

Intel to launch quad-core notebook CPU in Q3 08
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