INTEL TO LAUNCH QUAD BABIES SOON

Intel will let go its first quad-core processor for notebooks next month, rounding out a extensive revise to its portable computing platform. "We're getting quad-core to itinerant in August," said Sujan Kamran, regional marketing manager for client platforms at Intel in Singapore. Kamran refused to reveal specifics of the quad-core chip, which will lug Intel's Core 2 Extreme moniker. Receiving a quad-core processor into a notebook is more about conceited rights than an indisputable boost in presentation. Very little PC software is calculated to take benefit of numerous cores and it's indistinct what performance benefits a quad-core chip would proffer over a dual-core chipset, such as the 3.06GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9100.