Intel to push ahead of the quad core processor batch price $999

In August 18th, according to Taiwan motherboard manufacturers, Intel will be in the fourth quarter of this year ahead of the launch of the product code for the "quad core desktop computer processor series Kentsfield, this batch of quad core processors was originally scheduled to launch in the first quarter of next year. Taiwan motherboard manufacturers have pointed out that these quad core Kentsfield processor more than a thousand wholesale price of $999.

Intel hopes to ensure its leading position in the high-end processor products on the market by earlier than planned to launch 65 nanometer quad core processor, because of its rival AMD company has plans to launch Socket-AM in the fourth quarter of 2 Athlon 64 FX-64 series processor, it is reported that the L2 cache core speed of this series processor support 3GHz and 2 1MB. According to the introduction of Intel company, the Socket-775 Kentsfield quad core processor will be included in the Core 2 Extreme processor series, its core speed is 2.66GHz, built-in L2 cache 2 4MB, front bus and support 1066MHz.

Although AMD will begin in the third quarter of 2007, sales of desktop quad core processors, but in order to compete with Intel, it will continue to improve the speed of the processor core products and maintain its competitive advantage in price. In addition to Athlon 64 FX-64 processor, AMD also plans to launch the FX-66 version of the Athlon 64 processor, is expected to clock speed of 3.2GHz, built-in 2 1MB cache.