Intel, AMD Set to Unveil New Chips on Monday
Source: Xatrix
Intel Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices, fierce rivals in the market for microprocessors, are expected on Monday to announce their fastest-ever chips, analysts said, continuing the pair's long rivalry. We are talking about Athlon XP at 1.67 gigaherz, and Pentium 4 running at 2 gigahertz.
Advanced Micro Devices will debut its Athlon XP 2000+, which runs at 1.67 gigahertz, or 1.67 billion cycles a second, while Intel will unveil its new Pentium 4 chip running at 2.2 gigahertz, analysts said.
Currently, Intel's fastest chip is the Pentium 4 running at 2 gigahertz, and Advanced Micro's is its Athlon XP1900+, which runs at 1.6 gigahertz. Last year, AMD briefly claimed the fastest running chip, although Intel has since pulled ahead and is likely to stay there.
Analysts said that while the chips' improvements are important, the new processors, the primary computing engines of personal computers, are also the latest chapter in a long race.
