Intel prepares six-core Xeon

Quad-core and Octo-core might be the current next-gen craze for desktops and servers, but Intel seems wants to pitch a line of CPUs in-between as well. Intel will be adding on to their Xeon lineup with the “Dunnington” core later this year, a CPU that will have a total of six cores under the hood.

Dunnington, which was announced three years ago, is intended to be an enterprise-class chip and will feature 3MB of shared L2 cache per pair of cores, and shared 16MB L3 cache. According to the leaked slides, it'll use the 'somewhat dated' 1066MHz FSB, and is probably aimed at preventing the Opteron from regaining any ground once AMD gets back on their feet.

Microsoft Windows 7 RTM is Coming

The hot news of last week is about the release of Windows 7 operating system. Microsoft is now on the final work of the OS and as per the sources the users will be able to download microsoft windows RTM from August 6th. This will be the English version and other language versions wil be available from October 1st.

Microsoft Windows Communication Manager,Brandon LeBlanc,recently mentioned Windows 7 RTM details in the Windows Team Blog. The details mostly matter for the Partners, OEMs, IT Professionals, Developers and Beta enthusiasts as well as testers.

From Microsoft Connect or Microsoft Developer Network, independent software and hardware vendor partners would be able to download Windows 7 RTM copy on Aug. 6 and Gold/Certified members of Microsoft Partner Program will get a copy on Aug. 16. Volume License Customers can get their copies from Volume License Service Center on Aug. 7.

Microsoft Action Pack Subscribers get to download Windows 7 RTM on Aug. 23 and the OEMs get it two days after Windows 7 goes to Manufacturing. Business customers, IT professionals, and developers will get the Windows 7 RTM copy late September. Microsoft also said that that Beta testers won't be able to download any free copy of Windows 7 even though they're beta testers.

LeBlanc also confirmed that Microsoft will be offering Windows 7 Family Pack.The main advantage is that home users with multiple PCs can buy Windows 7 Home Premium version that could be installed on to three PCs maximum.

Intel reduced CPU prices

One of the latest news in the field of computers is that the Processor making Giants, INTEL recently reduced the price of almost all of its processors except the Core i7 processor. Intel reduced the price of the most popular ones which includes Core 2 Duo, Core 2 Quad, Pentium and Celeron CPUs.

Intel reduced the price of the above processors by about 10 to 20 percentage of the earlier price. This recent step taken by the Intel will make the AMD, the best competer of Intel in trouble and forced them to reduce their processor price also. Some of the reduced rates of Intel processor are given below.

The price of Intel Core2Quad Q9400 has lowered from $213 to $183 and that of Q8400 to $163.
Alos the price of Intel E7500 Core2Duo is reduced to $113 from $133, and the Celeron E1500 is lowered by a 19 percent that will make to $43 from $53.

Intel prepares new mobile platform, Centrino 2,

Everything seems to indicate that Intel will be pushing a new mobile platform later this year that will succeed the very popular and successful Centrino. A number of online publications are betting on the "Centrino 2" name for the upcoming mobile platform that will likely boost small CPUs ranging from 1.2GHz to 2.4GHz manufactured using a 45nm process, plus a performance range that will scale up to 2.80 GHz. New chipsets are also incoming with an updated graphics core said to double the performance from the current X3100 GPU. Among networking choices, it is expected that WiMax will make a big debut in flagship laptop models. This latter technology has received astounding support from manufacturers, but adoption has been extremely slow in the consumer market.