Month: July 2006

The Inquirer has an article which says, based on Intel roadmaps, that Conroe will be ramped up a bit faster than earlier indicated. Up to now, the expected percentage of Conroe chips in the mix of mainstream desktop CPUs has

Here’s a few numbers that might quell the savage beast in you if you feel panicked about getting a Conroe in the next couple months. This quarter, Intel will make around four million of them. That’s a little less than

To understand AMD’s dilemna the second half of the year a bit better, perhaps we should inject some numbers into the picture. Until fairly recently, the mainstream A64 single-core chips averaged, very roughly around 90 sq.mm. in size (averaging out

No surprise in this corner, but there’s a million websites showing a million stats indicating that Conroe wallops the AMD competition. We’re not going to dwell on that, but just make a few points and observation that otherwise might be

If you haven’t looked at XtremeSystems Forums lately, maybe you should. There’s multiple reports of people getting 3.8GHz or better with high-end air with pre-release Conroes. Uhhh, that’s very good. If the average person is able to get even just