At CES 2007, the era of dual-core machines will soon be eclipsed by the surging wave of quad-core processors.
According to reports, the new Core 2 Quad 6600 will join the high-end Core 2 Extreme QX6700 chip as Intel's latest quad-core processors. It runs at a slightly slower 2.4GHz versus the latter's 2.67GHz clockspeed, though both chips are compatible with 1066MHz front side bus mainboards. Its close rival, AMD, also has a quad-core processor codenamed Barcelona in the works, though we may not hear much about it until the middle of 2007.