Santa Clara-Based Intel Rolls Out New Chips, Lowers Some Prices

Santa Clara, Calif. -- Intel, the Santa Clara-based chip-maker, has released 10 new computer chips and lowered the prices on its older ones, all in an effort to ramp up the pressure on its chief competitor, Sunnyvale-based AMD. The company, which has lost about 5% of its market share to AMD over the past year, rolled out its Core 2 Duo processors, including five for desktops and five for mobile PCs. Intel said that the desktop PC version of the new processors, built using its new 65-nanometer silicon process technology, provide up to a 40% increase in performance and are more than 40% more energy efficient than its previous best processors. Intel also has lowered the prices of some of its older chips by as much as 61%.
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