News Intel's Dual-Core Chips Debut

I'm sure that our erstwhile Editor in Chief, in between sunning himself at Golden Gate park, riding on a Trolly or re-enacting classic scenes from Bullitt, will post his report on this - but in the mean time, here's PCWorld's spin:

SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel outlined its plans for a dual-core mobile processor and platform technology this week, but declined to provide any details about the dual-core future of its flagship Pentium 4 desktop processor.

The company's first dual-core notebook product is code-named Yonah. It will be a 65 nanometer version of the Pentium M processor and it will come with a new set of accompanying technology grouped under the Napa code name.

Yonah and Napa will succeed the Sonoma platform that is slated for availability in the first quarter of 2005. Sonoma includes support for DDR2 memory and improved integrated graphics in the Alviso chip set.

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