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Intel Launches $999 Core i7-980X Extreme Edition

Intel Launches $999 Core i7-980X Extreme Edition

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Intel has released its first six-core processor, the Core i7-980X Extreme Edition, that is aimed at the consumer market and will be a direct replacement of the Core i7-975 Extreme Edition. Apart from the fact that it comes with six cores rather than four cores, it also cements Intel's crushing domination at the very high end of the processor spectrum, far ahead of archrival AMD. The processor is built using a more advanced 32nm manufacturing process, runs at 3.33GHz, is...



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