Intel quad-core chips arriving sooner than expected

Intel’s quad-core chips, Xeon server processor code-named Clovertown and desktop processor code-named Kentsfield, actually are packages consisting of two dual-core chips, but each package plugs into a single processor socket. AMD, whose quad-core chips are due in mid-2007, uses a more refined design with all the cores on a single slice of silicon.

If anything, it will be interesting to see the results of these benchmarked. In some respects Dual Core is still not being used to it’s full potential in some apps, but how cool would it be to have four cores under that roof?