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AMD's New Tripple Core Phenom due in 2008

It's official now. AMD's line on it is - there are very few applications that can fully utilize dual core. There's much less that could even utilize quad core - so our tripple core is the best price to performance choice. This news comes at the same time as release of quad core Phenom. This may give AMD some fighting chance once again.

Few years back, Intel was sleeping on their laurels while AMD quietly mounted full speed attack on its much larger counterpart. Intel was stomped. They did not see it coming. They lost a lot of market and they did not like it. They invested hundred of millions in research & development and they finally beat AMD on performance. They were the first to introduce PC compatible quad core (there's the 16 core from Sun with 4 hyperthreads each - but that's for another entry.) By end of last year, AMD was supposed to have unveiled their 8 core but they're having problems with it, obviously. They could not produce quad core for very long time and now it seems their focus is towards middle path between dual and quad rather than pushing the envelope with octal. My guess is that they still want to go that way, but with the technical difficulties for the time being they're calling the tripple idea a clever market analysis and an interesting value proposition.

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