Intel Corp. has a significant, if temporary, edge over archrival Advanced Micro Devices based on news and papers emerging here Monday (Feb. at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC).

Intel described at ISSCC its first 32nm server processor to use six cores. Meanwhile AMD discussed a new core it will use in its first processor to combine x86 and graphics cores called Llano. Separately, Intel announced Monday its long-delayed Itanium 9300. It is Intel’s first Itanium chip to use the company’s QuickPath Interconnect letting OEMs link eight multicore processors with additional logic. To date, AMD has been limited to linking four chips in a symmetric multiprocessing system without the need for extra chips.

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