Dual-Core Chip Ends Pentium's Reign

[Onkel Neal]

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/2006...8435510220.htm

Intel on Thursday unveiled a lineup of new computer processors named Core 2 Duo, which is replacing its 12-year-old Pentium brand.


The company said that the new chips are about 40 percent more powerful and energy-saving than Pentium chips. Also known by the project name Conroe, the Core 2 Duo chips have two processing cores in a single unit, and are more efficient at running resource-demanding tasks like high-definition computer games.

Intel hopes that the launching of the new brand will help the firm regain its lost share in the central processing unit (CPU) market. The U.S. chip giant saw a 13-percent decrease in sales and a 60-percent drop in operating profit in the second quarter, compared to same period last year, as its archrival AMD prevailed in the low-end chip market for desktop and laptop PCs.

Core 2 Duo?? Their marketing guys must be asleep, that's not nearly as good a name as Pentium. You know it's a bad sign when they tout a CPU's power after riding up on Harleys