AMD to demonstrate dual-core chips

Aiming to deflate archrival Intel, Advanced Micro Devices this week will show off its dual-core chips, which will start to trickle out toward the middle of next year.

AMD on Tuesday will show off a Hewlett-Packard ProLiant server with four dual-core Opteron chips at a facility in Austin, Texas, bringing the functional number of chips in four-processor servers to eight.

“When you load Microsoft (Server 2003), it shows up as eight processors,” said Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of the microprocessor business unit at AMD.

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Well, no-one at Intel is going to be very happy about this. Intel has been scrambling to regain what many people see as the technological edge for some time, but every time they get close AMD seems to snatch it away. Intel wa the first to announce dual-core chips, but it looks like AMD will be the first to show something more substantial than talk.

It’s been like this since AMD was the first to release 64-bit CPU chips. Intel, at the time, said that they didn’t consider 64-bit desktop computing to be important. In the ensuing year or so, they’ve revised their opinion. Perhaps it has something to do with watching AMD eat market share like it’s on sale for pennies.