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Intel launches Core 2 Duo microprocessors

by S M Akram - July 29, 2006 - 0 comments

Intel Corp launched its newest, fastest and most energy-efficient microprocessors, which it calls Core 2 Duos, on Thursday, that are expected to help the world's largest chip maker retake ground lost to smaller competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD).

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 <p>Intel Corp launched its newest, fastest and most energy-efficient microprocessors, which it calls Core 2 Duos, on Thursday, that are expected to help the world's largest chip maker retake ground lost to smaller competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD).</p>
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 <p>Unveiling 10 microprocessors, the biggest product revamp in six years, in a gala event that signaled its determination to stem the inroads of rival AMD, Intel Chief Executive Officer Paul Otellini said, "The Core 2 Duo processors are simply the best processors in the world,'' while addressing hundreds of computer-makers, industry analysts and reporters gathered inside a tent the size of a football field. </p>
<p>The Core 2 Duo microprocessors, which are being disclosed gradually over the next month, are Intel's first desktop and mobile chips to feature a blueprint designed to deliver significantly better performance while requiring less power and kicking off less heat, a feature that is increasingly significant in extending the battery life of laptops and lessening electric bills in homes and offices. </p>
<p>The chips reach at a time when Intel's only serious rival, AMD, has made giant market share inroads. In a move likely to put more pressure on AMD and result in lower prices for consumers, on Thursday, Santa Clara-based Intel also axed prices as much as 61% on some of its older chips.</p>
<p>Although Intel still dominates the microprocessor industry to a degree that most firms would envy, but AMD has about doubled its share of global sales in the past two years, going from 8.5% in the first quarter of 2004 to 16.2% in the first three months of this year, according to research firm International Data Corp. </p>
<p>And over the past year, Intel has lost nearly 5% points of market share to rival AMD, thanks to a raft of products that many reviewers have said were faster and less expensive to run than Pentium 4 processors, which Intel introduced in 2000.</p>
<p>Intel's modest design, which delivers as much as 40% better performance while consuming as much as 40% fewer watts than the previous generation, represents a potent weapon as it tries to close an advantage that AMD has enjoyed for three years.</p>
<p>“It is really a dramatic shift in terms of their competitive position, and not a minute too soon." CEO Otellini acknowledged that the company's old design, or micro-architecture, struggled to compete against AMD's offerings. He promised that Intel would develop new designs more frequently than it has in the past.</p>
<p>However, AMD executives said they were not impressed.</p>
<p>“AMD is now quite accustomed to Intel reacting and attempting to follow our lead," AMD vice president Patrick Moorhead wrote in an e-mail on Thursday afternoon.</p>
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