Intel and AMD new quad-core chips

AMD and Intel ended 2008 with a new quad-core hit. There is Intel Core 2 Quad Mobile Processor Q9000 that is the latest mobile processor from Intel and it has been housed in the Acer’s recently launched 8930G laptop, and AMD’s Phenom II processors that have popped up online for consumers’ pre-orders.

As mentioned earlier, the Intel Core 2 Quad Mobile Processor Q9000 has been housed in the Acer’s recently launched 8930Gnotebook and this processor is running with 12MB of shared L2 cache in this laptop an with 2.53GHz clock speed rate upward and a 1066 MHz front side bus.

Aside from the Q9000 chip, there are many other impressive features in the new Acer notebook that also include DDR3 memory of 4GB, an 18.4inch LCD, a 1/2TB SATA hard disk and a NVIDIA GeForce 9700M GT graphic card.

Aside from the Q9000, Intel is also release four more mobile processors, while AMD will debut its Phenom II processors publicly at CES next month. This new processor from AMD is already available for pre-orders and it runs at up to 3GHz of speed with an 8MB cache.