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Processor usually consists of only dual-core and quad-core. Recently AMD launched triple-core processor. Four Athlon II X3 triple-core processor AMD had launched that part of  formation which slipped in between the dual-core Athlon X2 II and quad-core processor Athlon X4 II. Triple core processor running at speeds between 2.2GHz and 2.9GHz and draw 95 watts maximum power.

PC makers value triple-core processors because they fill a price and performance gap between dual- and quad-core processors, Brookwood said. Triple-core chips perform better than dual-core processors, but cost less than quad-core chips. While it until now. AMD’s rival, Intel, offers only dual-core and quad-core processors for standard desktops. The Athlon II X3 chips are priced between US $76 and $102 in units of 1,000.

Triple-core chips making processor more responsiveness to PCs and headroom to run additional programs, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at market research firm Insight 64. Users can run programs like antivirus on the third core when the first two cores are performing other system functions.

The chips are designed to go into desktops and new PC form factors including all-in-one and small desktops, AMD said. Users will be able to see 3D graphics on PCs powered by the new processors, AMD said.

AMD’s new chips are made using the new 45-nanometer manufacturing process, an AMD spokeswoman said. The chips typically are smaller and offer better performance than chips made using the older 65-nm process. AMD is trying to move a larger mix of its chips to the new manufacturing process in an effort to cut costs and offer more energy-efficient chips, company executives said on an earnings call last week.

samsung SSD

Samsung Semiconductor have developing solid state drive (SSD)  that’s about one-third the size of a business card and that can plug directly into  PCI Express (PCIe) slot in a desktop, laptop or netbook.

its new SSD conforms to the new mini-SATA (mSATA) interface that the SATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced at Intel’s Developer’s Forum last month.

Samsung’s new mini SSD drive currently has capacities of up to 64GB. Industry observers have said that the 2.5-in and 3.5-in disk drive casings used to house solid state chips that make up SSDs are only a stop-gap measure until makers modify mother boards to include PCIe slots.

While the drive may not contend with today’s traditional hard disk drives (HDD) that are approaching 2TB in size, it can be used to run the PC’s OS and higher performance applications right next to a slower, higher capacity HDD that would be used for mass storage of things such as photos, video, music and slower applications.

The mSATA drive uses a PCIe slot that does not currently exist in today’s desktops, laptops and netbooks. So hardware makers would need to modify their products to include a PCIe slot. The mSATA drive, however, still uses the serial ATA (SATA) protocol, which would allow data and applications to be moved seamlessly between a hard disk drive and the smaller SSD.