{"id":63,"date":"2006-11-14T16:06:22","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T21:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/macvm.com\/intel-launches-quad-core-for-the-desktop\/"},"modified":"2016-08-31T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T23:06:47","slug":"intel-launches-quad-core-for-the-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/intel-launches-quad-core-for-the-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel Launches Quad Core for the Desktop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/icon\/intel.jpg\" class=\"alignright\"  alt=\"Intel\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbronline.com\/article_news.asp?guid=49E53381-F875-4EAE-96E8-DE26355F2A94\">Computer Business Review<\/a> mentions that Intel is officially launching the quad-core Core 2s:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Intel Corp has officially launched its first desktop quad-core processor, codenamed Kentsfield, with new systems boasting the CPU set to be announced today. But for the average enterprise user, two plus two will not add up to four.<\/p>\n<p>In launching Kentsfield, Intel beats rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc to the quad-core punch. But AMD&#8217;s forthcoming quad-core CPU, due mid-2007 or so, may end packing more performance.<br \/>\nAdvertisement<\/p>\n<p>Intel&#8217;s Kentsfield, called Core 2 Extreme quad-core QX6700, is up to 80% faster than its Core 2 Extreme X6800, or Conroe, counterpart, claimed Intel. The latter is, of course, the chipmaker&#8217;s high-end dual-core desktop offering that launched in July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They mention that they will probably carry a pricetag of around $1000, with a cheaper, more mainstream\/consumer-oriented version coming out early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Computer Business Review mentions that Intel is officially launching the quad-core Core 2s: Intel Corp has officially launched its first desktop quad-core processor, codenamed Kentsfield, with &#8230; <a title=\"Intel Launches Quad Core for the Desktop\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/macvm.com\/intel-launches-quad-core-for-the-desktop\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Intel Launches Quad Core for the Desktop\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/macvm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}