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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) has challenged Intel Corp. to a public fight to see which company has the best-performing 64-bit dual-core server processors. The company placed advertisements in major U.S. newspapers Tuesday proposing a contest that would pit the fastest server based on a dual-core AMD processor with the fastest server based on an equivalent chip from Intel, AMD said.

Intel Corp. has begun volume shipments of the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor, the company

By the end of 2005, Intel Corp. will have shifted all of its processor designs for everything from notebook chips to symmetric multiprocessor (SMP) servers to dual-core chips, resulting in the discontinuation of two single-core processors on its current road maps.