The next wave of 64 bit.
Today AMD officially launched its dual core Athlon 64 X2. There price breakdown at quanaties of 1,000 works out that the 4200+ = $537, 4400+ = $581, 4600+ = $803 and the 4800+ = $1001. This puts the cheapest dual core above the cost of the fastest single core Athlon 64 currently listed at $482 on Price Watch for the 90 nm version. On the heels of that Intel announced today they will be producing low cost 64 bit processors in the form of there Celeron D that use there EM64T instruction set.