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AMD's new quad-core Opteron processor code-named Barcelona is slated to deal with the problems of virtualization performance issues when it comes out in mid 2007. That would spell bad news for Intel that has already had a VSS this year due to less than encouraging financial results.

Intel is not sitting still and it is also coming out with a quad-core processor called Intel's "Clovertown" version of Xeon that has two dual-core Xeon 5100 "Woodcrest" processors into a single package.

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