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The Integrated Core . . .

Someone at Intel muttered something about integrating graphics into the CPU core someday. Is this something to get wound up about now? Is this the basis for those AMD/ATI rumors? Well, no, but it does indicate something important somewhere down

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Bye, Bye, Cache . . .

OK, it’s not an unofficial phaseout of 1Mb AMD desktop chips, it’s an official one. If you want a desktop with 1Mb cache from AMD, it will have to be an Opteron (which will not be getting any known price

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How Much Cash for that Cache? . . .

If you take a look at the AMD pricing chart attached to this article, you’ll see something that at first glance looks absolutely bizarre: Here’s the late July pricing for the X2s: 5000+: $403 4800+: $645 4600+: $301 4400+: $470

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Changed Your Mind? . . .

About three weeks ago, we asked folks if they planned to buy a computer over the next year, and if so, what. What we found out was that while there was little interest in AM2 at the moment, there wasn’t

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Price Vs. Performance . . .

It’s going to be an interesting second half of the year. Yesterday, we pointed out that AMD slashed its single-core prices dramatically and suggested that similiar slashes in dual-cores were inevitable. Some have already asked, “Just when is “inevitable?” “Inevitable”