Quad-core chips for the holidays

Darius Chang | Dec 13, 2006

Just as we have finished reeling from the onslaught of dual-core chips, Intel throws a double whammy by forming a quartet with its processing cores.

Intel's Xeon 5335 is a quad-core package that merges two 2.0GHz Xeon 5100 processors (codenamed Woodcrest) on a single chip. Each core pair has individual 4MB memory cache, and runs at 1,333MHz front-side bus speeds. This move puts the chipmaker ahead of its rival, AMD, in the quad-core server space, with the latter's quad-core "Barcelona" chip due only next year.

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