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Date: Monday October 10, 2005 10:29:00 am
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    Intel to Unveil New Chips Today

    (10/05) – Intel Corp.
    will unveil new chips on Monday that it hopes will close a performance
    gap with rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. in the market for server
    system chips, the Wall Street Journal reported.
    Chips from Intel provide the processing power for the vast majority of
    x86 servers, which typically run the Linux operating system or
    Microsoft Corp.’s Windows.
    Intel’s move follows a chip launch from AMD, which in April debuted its
    “dual-core” server chips featuring two electronic brains on a single
    piece of silicon. Aided by the additions to its Opteron line, AMD’s
    share of the market for x86 server chips rose to 7.4 percent in the
    second quarter from 5.6 percent in the first period, the Journal
    reported.
    In x86 servers running at least four chips each, AMD grabbed nearly 20
    percent of the U.S. market, up from 11.4 percent in the first period,
    according to the Journal.
    Intel said the new products will join the company’s Xeon chip line. The
    latest model, which carries the designation DP, is tailored for servers
    with sockets to use as many as two chips.
    A model for four-chip servers is expected in a few weeks, the Journal said.
    Most server makers are expected to adopt the new Xeons, the paper said.
    Dell Inc. , the one major vendor that does not use AMD’s Opteron, has
    announced machines using the new Intel products.
    Hewlett-Packard Co., the biggest maker of x86 servers, has found the
    new Xeon DP chips to be 30 percent to 50 percent faster than earlier
    Intel models, an HP executive told the paper. The chips also draw no
    more electrical power than earlier models.
    AMD said it expected to remain competitive with Intel’s new designs
    .

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