[H]ard|OCP reviews Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processor
Tick tock. While AMD's desktop product line continues to remain somewhat stagnant, Intel continues to move forward at an impressive and somewhat surprising rate even though it is happening exactly like Intel said it would. Intel promised to shrink their current microprocessor design on the "tick" and then release a new microprocessor architecture on the "tock." And there is no doubt about it; Intel is both ticking and tocking.
Today's processor soft-launch puts us back on "tick" with Intel's architecture codenamed "Penryn." The Penryn hard-launch will follow on November 12... [read more]
