Joining the dual-core race sponsored by AMD and Intel, Hewlett-Packard unveiled new servers, the HP ProLiant BL45p for the HP BladeSystem and the dual-core HP ProLiant DL585, which use AMD’s new dual-core AMD Opteron processor.HP said it also plans to release the HP ProLiant BL25p, BL35p and DL385 and the HP xw9300 Workstation with dual-core technologies in mid-2005, when AMD delivers its Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor 200 Series. “The advent of dual- and multi-core processor technologies represents an industry defining change which returns us to the performance promise of Moore’s Law at industry-standard prices,” Brad Anderson, senior vice president and general manager, Industry Standard Servers, HP, said in a statement. AMD and Intel have run a tight race to beat each other to market with their dual-core chips, IDG News Service said. Earlier this week, PC vendors Dell and Alienware began shipping systems with Intel’s first dual-core processor, the 3.2GHz Pentium Extreme Edition 840. The marketing blitz behind dual-core has turned out to be one of the more interesting aspects of this technology, said Kevin Krewell, editor-in-chief of Microprocessor Report, in San Jose, California. “They both launched their chips in the same week, which is pretty amusing,” he said. “They’re fighting tooth and nail.” “The reality is neither AMD nor Intel are first to the party,” Krewell said. “In fact, they are late to the party for dual-core processors.”‘ IBM and Sun Microsystems have been shipping dual-core servers since the advent of their Power4 and UltraSparc IV chips, and many other vendors, including Azul Systems, which this week unveiled systems based on a 24-core processor, have mastered the move to multicore designs, he said. Technology Industry