Intel aims for one million quad-core processors by mid-2007

Santa Clara (CA) - The production volume of Intel's quad-core processors is still very limited, but the company hopes to deliver a total of one million Kentsfield and Clovertown processors by the time AMD announces its first processor with four cores.

According to chief executive officer Paul Otellini, the one million mark is scheduled to be reached by mid of this year. He did not comment on the production share of quad-cores, but considering the fact that the company started shipping the processors in November of last year as well as an annual processor production volume of around 150 million CPUs, both Kentsfield and Clovertown are on the very bottom of the list.

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