Intel, IBM push ahead with faster chips
Intel introduces its fastest Xeon processor yet, while IBM counts on a new manufacuturing process to boost chip speed 20-50 percent.
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Intel releases its most powerful processor yet, while IBM touts a new process that could make chips 50 percent faster. "If you look at the stuff it takes to keep this moving in terms of performance, SOI is a huge step." - Fred Zieber, analyst and president of Pathfinder Research | 
| | | Intel hits 700 MHz with new Xeon chips The chipmaker releases its most powerful processor to date, a new Xeon that takes advantage of technology introduced with earlier, lower-end Pentium III chips.
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