Cray picks Intel for supercomputers

April 28, 2008

(AP) -- Intel Corp. is ratcheting up the competition with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. by teaming up with supercomputer maker Cray Inc., which for the past six years has used only AMD chips in its high-performance machines.

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Not mentioned whether they would use quad cores or dual cores or even single cores, en masse.
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