Sentence examples for desktop chips from inspiring English sources

Advanced Micro's Athlon XP desktop chips are doing well enough that the company does not need to rush out Hammer, he said.

Paul Otellini, Intel's number two, who is expected to take over from Mr Barrett next May, said last month that he expects 40% of desktop chips sold, and 80% of server chips, to be multi-core by the end of 2006.

The company has suffered some setbacks recently: Its Hammer family of desktop chips has been delayed.

The two desktop chips are the high-end Athlon 64 FX-51 and the Athlon 64 3200+.

In a partnership made public in 2005, the chip giant brought the computer maker a promising technology road map for its mobile and desktop chips.

AMD has been forced to respond, with analyst Hans Mosesmann of Moors & Cabot finding in early June 30% reductions by AMD for its low-end desktop chips and predicting possible cuts for high-end chips as well.

By comparison, an Intel Pentium 4 processor, the fastest desktop chip, can transmit about 50 billion bits a second.

For the first time, Intel is designing the mobile chip from scratch, instead of tweaking its desktop chip to run better in notebook computers.

Intel has engaged Advanced Micro in a price war in the desktop chip market, even as it extends its lead in clock speed.

On Monday, A.M.D. unveiled its own strategic change: a desktop chip with three cores, unusual in an industry that tends to grow in even numbers, routinely doubling performance.

"You can't get the performance, reliability and scalability just by adding bits to the end of the register of a desktop chip, which is essentially what A.M.D. is doing," said Ms. Hambrick of Intel.