Intel annouced the biggest breakthrough in transistor technology in 40 years. They are going to use hafnium based high-k dielectric to manufacture chips instead of the usual silicon dioxide. The news is all over. Time to change the name of the valley 
Intel released the quad core on Nov 14, 2006. Read it here. They actually started shipping the quad core that day. http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20061114comp.htm
AMD does it on Nov 30, 2006. And it is not really quad core. They are just 2 dual core CPU on the same motherboard. Read here. http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~114483,00.html?redir=dtfx04
Intel had that for a long time. Even Apple computer had dual core dual CPU Mac Pros using Intel Dual Core CPUs for a long time now. Introduced in Aug 7, 2006.
Where did this guy come from? Can you believe that this guy writes for PC Magazine?
There seems to be no accountability for blabbering fan boy stuff (or utter ignorance) on reputed (or is it any more?) publications like this.
The guy writes on day when Intel is secretly showing 8 core machines using 2 quad core processors on the same board. This is almost at the time when AMD is able to show only a 4 core system using 2 dual core processors. Amazing journalism.
If you haven’t heard already, Intel has already designed a 45 nm chip and started sampling it which means they are closer to production of a 45 nm chip.
AMD and IBM together are now planning an 18 month chase to catch up with Intel. That is just a plan right now.
I am upgrading my Pentium D 950 system to Core 2 Duo E6700 some time next week. I have ordered an ASUS motherboard. This one is not a top end as the one I used for the Pentium D system. But the Core 2 chip is going to rock. It uses a lot less power and I am hoping the noise level in the room to come down a lot from that system. I need to start selling stuff on ebay that are obsolete in my setup.
The newly announced Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme edition that will be released in November this year and the general desktop Core 2 Quad processors coming out in Q1’07 are already beating the much hyped AMD 4×4 architecture of using 2 AMD dual core processors on 2 different sockets on the same mother board. AMD’s quad core processors will be 6 months behind Intel’s quad core processors.
Read at ZDNet for more information.