CNet's got a short write-up on the upcoming dual-core chips due out from both AMD & Intel. It's a good first-look kind of article to get you all hot 'n bothered over what's to come ;)

"A version of Opteron coming in 2005 and Montecito, a future member of Intel's Itanium family also slated for next year, will both have two processor cores, the actual unit inside a processor that performs the calculations, and each core will have separate caches, pools of memory integrated into the chip for rapid data access, according to company presentations at the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University."