Few months ago AMD launched the quad-core Barcelona chips. Now Intel cannot be left behind but wants to get ahead two steps forward that might put AMD into the ground. They will be planning to launch Penryn processors.

Penryn is a shrink of the Core architecture that brought Intel up in 2006. For the first time they will be using metal gate and new material for the oxide layer around the gate in its transistor designs.This fundamental part of the transistor provides the foundation for computing as the part that determines whether a transistor is off or on, a “0″ or a “1.”

This is a timely enhance processors that will completely make AMD thinks faster and create their new one to match it.