Processors for PCs to sprout two heads – Models will require less power and can handle more work

For decades, computer performance has been driven largely by the increasing numbers of ever-smaller transistors squeezed into the machines’ silicon brains.

With each generation, speeds jumped and prices dropped.

Now, the world’s leading semiconductor companies have unveiled a remarkably similar strategy for working around the problem: In 2005, microprocessors sold for personal computers will sprout what amounts to two heads each.

By Matthew Fordahl, Associated Press

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