Quad Core in laptops, already? Intel’s quad core for the mini market will be dubbed the Core 2 Extreme. Using 45 watts, it is currently unclear whether the architecture of the processor will be based on Penryn or the Nahalem. I wonder how they’re going to cool this thing. It might burn a whole through your laptop.

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via PC Magazine

The AMD 64 2000+ (clocked at 1 GHz) has been found to rip the raved-about Atom processor by Intel, (clocked at 1.6 GHz), beating Intel in power and processing benchmarks. The stellar performance is mostly accredited to the very well designed K8 architecture.

AMD seems to be getting back on track, after having lost market share to Intel’s Core 2 Duo processors and Nvidias’s graphics cards. AMD now has the HD 4870 X2, which was deemed the “world’s fastest graphics card”. Go AMD!

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via Tom’s Hardware