Intel moves to new Core 2 Duo chips
WinInfo | at | by Mike
Ever-creative Intel this week announced that it will continue its boring naming strategy from the past and simply call the second generation Core Duo microprocessors, which had been codenamed Merom and Conroe, as Core 2 Duo. There'll even be a Core 2 Duo Extreme version, in case you were nervous that name was going away too. The desktop version of the chip (which had been named Conroe) and the notebook version (Merom) will both become available later this year, Intel says. Expect to see them by the third quarter of 2006 at the latest. Intel is also working on quad-core CPUs, which could arrive as early as 2007.