It's all about the dual-core these days. From Intel launching a split-core Smithfield processor range, from the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 down, to today's official launch of AMD's dual-core Opteron range, all the hype in the processor world revolves around putting more than one core inside a processor package. The current approaches of AMD and Intel to multiple core processors aren't new, with other CPU vendors having multi-core processor designs for a long time. However those processors aren't x86 designs and fall outside of the usual HEXUS remit, and the eye of the consumer and many workstation and server vendors..



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