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Intel has finally released a CPU worthy of its premium Extreme Edition brand - the first six-core desktop processor. Previously known as Gulftown, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition is not only brutally fast out of the box but also a fantastic overclocker thanks to its 32nm transistors.
10th Mar, 10:16 Industry sources have hinted that Intel is set to release a portable, low-power version of its desktop dual-core Atom processors designed to bring multiprocessing to netbooks. [15]
8th Mar, 10:04 AMD has announced the launch of a competition, looking for suggestions on how to make best use of a 48-core server - with the winner getting a quartet of Magny-Cours chips. [21]
25th Feb, 12:26 ARM has announced a partnership with AMD's fab spin-off Globalfoundries that will see the companies mass produce system-on-chip devices based around a 28nm process. [15]
17th Feb, 10:14 AMD's latest Opteron processor - the 12-core 2.2GHz Magny-Cours - has appeared on eBay ahead of its official release. [46]
12th Feb, 13:59 Chip manufacturer Marvell has announced a new 1GHz ARM-based processor, aimed at the smartphone market, which it claims is significantly faster than Qualcomm's Snapdragon. [13]