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Intel
AMD
Q2 2007
  • Bearlake desktop platform
  • Santa Rosa mobile platform
  • Kite mobile platform
Q3 2007
  • High-end Bearlake chipset, Intel X38
  • 65nm Barcelona quad-core Opteron workstation chips
Q4 2007
  • 45nm Penryn platform with quad-core Yorkfield chips and dual-core Wolfdale chips
  • Barcelona desktop CPUs: native quad-core Athlon chips
1H 2008
  • Penryn mobile chips and Montevina mobile platform
  • Socket AM3 desktop chipset
  • Puma mobile platform
2H 2008
  • 45nm Nehalem platform
  • 45nm Opteron workstation chips
2009 and beyond
  • Geneseo: successor to PCI Express
  • 45nm desktop chips
  • Fusion: mobile platform combining CPU and GPU
Recap: dawn of multicore era
  • April 2005: Pentium D 840 Exreme Edition
  • January 2006: Pentium D 900 series
  • January 2006: Core Duo
  • July 2006: Core 2 Duo
  • November 2006: Core 2 Extreme QX6700
  • May 2005: Ahtlon 64 X2
  • January 2006: Athlon 64 FX-60
  • May 2006: Turion 64 X2
  • January 2007: Athlon FX Quad