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The Core 2 processor family is based on the Core microarchitecture, which covers servers (Xeon 5100 series), desktops and notebooks (Core 2 Duo & Core 2 Extreme).

The earmarks of the Core microarchitecture are high performance, on the one hand, and energy efficiency, on the other.

The Core microarchitecture strives to do more work in less time.

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With the launch of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme, Intel has become the proud parents of a brand new bouncing baby processor family. The launch date was July 27.

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AMD intends to acquire graphics chip and chipset maker ATI.

On the face of it, the acquisition may not seem like such a good idea: the union of a struggling graphics chip maker with a CPU company that has just lost its edge in the desktop and dual-processor server spaces.

However, Hector Ruiz (CEO, AMD) seems confident, and that confidence is in part based (according to Ruiz) on underlying forces in the industry. AMD’s customers want AMD to play a bigger role in mobile computing and in business PCs. Just who those customers are, Ruiz doesn’t say. HP? IBM? Sun? Others?

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