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For Intel is the clear: dual-core processors its the future. Yet its single-core processors written off yet long, already remains not their role limits till budget chip.

Merom, Conroe and Woodcrest: the new generation processors this Intel this soft proposed on the Intel Developer Forum embroider one by one further on the dual-core technology.

Also Yonah, code name of the successor of the Pentium M for notebooks, is foresee of a double core. These 32-availed processor becomes in January 2006 expected. Only striking later on a single-core version of Yonah is that Intel single months will launch, intended for layer price notebooks.

Analysts see in the single-core version of Yonah an affirmation that Intel no plans has self back to pull from the market segment of budget processors. An already too strict politics of dual-core processors will too much customers in the direction of competitor AMD can push.

That appeared also from an explanation of Steve Smith, vice-president of Intel's Digital Enterprise division: “We expect that single-core processors yet long will consist in our budget line.”

That Intel therefore a separate production line will not put up for the make of single-core processors. Presumably a single-core processer will be no longer then a dual-core chip of which the functionaliteit limits is drastically. Dual-core chips with a small defect incore then in such a way can be converted that they as single-core through the life go.

This method is not newly: the cheap Celeron-chips for desktopcomputers are in nature an expensiver Pentium-processor of which the possibilities limits its. Also competitor AMD handles to make one and the same tactics a difference between the budget processor Duron and the topmodel Athlon.