[Pc_Support] Are "Core Duo" and "Dual Core" synonymous terms? <EOM>

[Bryan J. Smith]

Ozzfest wrote:
> Much as I hate to reply to my own post, but I found the link:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/09/10/four_cores_on_the_rampage/

First off, I read this article weeks ago.

Secondly, it actually didn't do too good over the dual-core on
anything but synthetic benchmarks or multi-threaded server apps.
Pretty much all desktop stuff was flat.

Third, Intel's great about announcing things as they are sampling,
only to turn around and not ship in any significant volume for another
6-9 months.  That's really pissing a lot of Tier-2 OEMs off, and even
some Tier-1s (like Dell ;).

If there is one thing I like, and most integrators like, about AMD,
it's that they keep their mouth shut until about 2 weeks before they
ship in volume.  And let's not forget that AMD has repeatedly claimed
they will have their quad-Opteron shipping, _in_volume_, by 2007Q1.

As such, it won't surprise me when Intel claims it beat AMD to
quad-Core by shipping in 2006Q4, but you can't get them in any volume
and you're paying a massive premium for them until 2007H2.