both intel and amd have released samples of dual core CPU's
production is slated to begin towards the end of this year
by next year we should see sales in the mid market level.

intel has "officially" stated that its not holding to mores law in terms of
raw clock speed anymore and are "resorting" to parallism to continue
enhancing performance.

I am typing this on my dual 3.06 Xeon with a Nvidia 6600GT (AGP)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu]On Behalf
> Of Peter
> Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2005 23:30
> To: pic microcontroller discussion list
> Subject: [EE]: 2006 games consoles to outperform desktop pcs ?
>
>
>
> According to this article:
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/17/technology/17sony.html?8hpib
>
> Next year's games consoles will feature 2x3.2GHz cpus (Xbox 360) and a
> 9x<what core - mips?> for Playstation 3. If that is true than the
> consoles will outperform most desktop systems sold in 2006 (few of which
> will feature dual CPUs).
>
> Peter
>
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