时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:2006年NPR美国国家公共电台


英语课
The price(s) of some personal computers are likely to drop, following drastic cuts this week on some Intel and AMD microprocessors 1. At the same time Intel unveiled a new line of processors that are much faster than with their previous chips. NPR's Wendy Kaufman reports.

The intense rivalry 2 between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices heated up this week. Intel which has the lion's share of the market has been losing ground to AMD, because AMD had better technology. But yesterday Intel launched a new processor, which it calls the Core 2 Duo. Analysts 3 including Rob Enderle say the new chip is a winner for Intel and puts the company clearly ahead in technology.

"This is their biggest launch since their Pentium launch in the early 90s. This is showcasing a near 40% increase in performance from their previous generation which is about 2x the most you typically get chip to chip."

With the brand new chip on the market, Intel is cutting the price of older generation chips, in some cases, by 50 percent or more. AMD has cut its prices too, to remain competitive.

"What that means when you are going out to shop basically, is you are going to see a lot of really great deals."

Anush Yegyazarian is a senior editor at PC World. She says if you don't want the top of the line, you will soon be able to get a very good PC, for a very good price.

"Obviously, the overall price is going to depend on more than the processor. But basically, you know you're gonna be able to get five to eight-hundred-dollar computers that do a heckle of a lot.

She says they'll do just about everything, most of us do. But serious gamers for instance, might opt 4 for PCs with the new chip. While Intel has moved ahead of AMD with its latest chip; AMD hopes to leapfrog over Intel later this year, with something called a four by four platform. Intel will respond with yet another new chip. While today's best chips have essentially 5 two brains; the new chips from both companies will have four.

Wendy Kaufman NPR News.

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the lion's share (of something)
the largest part of something
The firm has captured the lion's share of the UK market.
leapfrog
to suddenly become better, more advanced etc than people or organizations that were previously 6 better than you
The company leapfrogged its rivals into a leading position.




微(信息)处理机( microprocessor的名词复数 )
  • This sort of work would have been inconceivable before the advent of microprocessors. 在微处理机问世之前这种工作是难以想象的。
  • In microprocessors, the name used for the IEEE interface bus standard. 微处理机中,IEEE接口总线标准的名字。
n.竞争,竞赛,对抗
  • The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
  • He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
分析家,化验员( analyst的名词复数 )
  • City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
  • I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
vi.选择,决定做某事
  • They opt for more holiday instead of more pay.他们选择了延长假期而不是增加工资。
  • Will individual schools be given the right to opt out of the local school authority?各个学校可能有权选择退出地方教育局吗?
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
学英语单词
-gogue
acceptance of starting
advice of collection
advivum
air oven ageing test
ammoebocytogenous
araceli
billiard rooms
billick
biograncetin
biquadrates
branching aneurysm
Bulwick
C. P. C. U.
carbonaceous refuse
castoral
Category 5 Cable
chelly
Chennault
clarifying filtration
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curtos mundula
cycle photophosphorylation
darkfriend
differential-decay method
Dispermin
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dull plate
electro puncture anaesthetic apparatus
end-tighting blading
error correcting mode
Esquimaus
fascicle
foetid gland
form-feed printer
grain measure
guy fawkes days
helbies
hoisting safety clamp
hydrogeochemical cycling
initial request
inversion race
isocost line
isopinoresinol
japonicus Ker-Gawl. Ophipogon
Jiloca, R.
light-actuated scr
locking primitive
luckdragon
machine friction of locomotive
macrosymbol table
make good
mankatoes
maprotyline
marsh St-John's wort
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
microprogram machine instructions
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator
minimum visibile
Morris column
mud maar
musette (france)
Myrrha
nipponosemia virescens
nutritional guidance
pan and tilt head
pervagor aspricaudus
Phi Bete
poly-rhythm
possessionist
proactive monitoring
protein protective
publicity-seekers
pulicosis
riddah
Ruhangino
Sanicula astrantiifolia
second-wave feminism
segmentation in intestine
Shanti Niketan
shoulder bolt
single-return wind tunnel
slot grit chamber
slumberwear
soil quality assessment
spoken of
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STOL port
straight facts
stratified seam sample
suction valve seat
sulemans
sweare
system for coordination of peripheral equipment
to feel obliged to do
transmission of heat by contact
U-shaped burrow
unchaotic
uncrosses
urgency message
well-tested
ziff