September 26, 2006 9:10 AM PDT

Intel quad cores coming in November

by Michael Kanellos
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Intel CEO Paul Otellini said Tuesday that his company would start to release chips with four cores for the gaming PC market in November, while quad-core chips for the mainstream would come in the first quarter.

Although the chips have four cores, Intel will keep the Core 2 name, Otellini said in his keynote address at the Intel Developer Forum. The gamer chip will be called the Core 2 Extreme, and the mainstream PC chip will be called Core 2 Quad. Fan sites had given an array of names.

So far 13 PC makers have signed up to make quad-core systems, including Dell, Gateway and Alienware.

Otellini also took a jab at rival Advanced Micro Devices. Intel, he said, has already shipped 40 million processors made on the 65-nanometer process. The rest of the industry has shipped a grand total of zero. AMD will come out with 65-nanometer chips later in 2006, about a year after Intel.

Chips made on the 65-nanometer lines will be smaller, faster and, in some cases, consume less energy than their 90-nanometer counterparts. The numbers refer to the average feature size of components on the chip. A nanometer is a billionth of a meter.

Intel's 45-nanometer chip, code-named Nehalem, is coming next year. The 32-nanometer chip is code-named Gehshem. The company's Israeli design team has been the one most responsible for its low-power chips

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