Intel Sells Upgrades for Microprocessors
 

Intel Corp. sells upgrade cards that enable Hyper-Threading, additional cache and other capabilities of Pentium-class processors and bring them to the level of performance of Intel Core central processing units (CPUs).

An upgrade card that costs $50 enables 1MB of cache as well as HyperThreading technology support on Intel Pentium G6951 microprocessors. The upgrade card is currently sold at Best Buy stores, according to the report. The microprocessor is made using 45nm and 32nm process technologies.

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