There's just something missing there......hmm.....oh yeah! "best price" =/ and quite soon, AMD will outperform Intel, not that I have any beef against intel.
But how much longer can AMD run while losing money or barely gaining any profits? Will it do a bit of good to outperform Intel if the company has gone bankrupt while getting to the point where they can outperform Intel?
Look at AMD and how they are basically working with roughly the same "basic" core design that they started with when they introduced the Athlon. You would think that AMD would have at least put something better out than the current cores, considering all the time that has lapsed since the advent of the Athlon. How much more is that "basic" core design gonna ramp in speed/performance?
Intel saw this years ago when they first started developing the P4 series, and they introduced the early P4 Williamettes, (which weren't fully developed yet, possibly due to AMD breaking the 1 Ghz barrier first). But even now, the P4 has matured and anybody who thinks straight is not laughing at the current top of the line Northwood core P4's and their current dominance of the desktop CPU market.
And the P4 has the capacity to ramp higher in speed and performance, whereas most of AMD's processor cores are reaching the limits of their capabilities. And if you were to ask me, I would say that Intel is using DAMNED good business practice and business foresight in preparing for the future as they have. I wish I could have as much foresight into the future as this, then I would be very rich too!
And since this time, Intel has improved upon the new designs, added things such as SSE, SSE2, HT, etc... Intel has actually diversified their research and come up with some pretty interesting additions to their processors. I cannot say that I have seen as much from AMD, although they have come up with a few things. Since the advent of the P4, AMD has been fraught with paper launches, bad publicity, a bad PR system, and bad management decisions. And of course, this all sets Intel up in a VERY good and enviable position. Intel has the leisure to develop new processes and additions at will, and releasing them to the public only as they feel threatened by AMD's developments.
As I see it at this point, unless A64 gains a QUICK foothold on the market, and the software developers support it by writing 64 bit optimized code, Intel has the future in their sights(and hands), and will remain dominant in the desktop CPU segment. AMD will fall further behind in their research, and eventually AMD will become a second-rate processor developer, and will never be able to truly compete for the "performance" crown again.
<font color=blue> Ok, so you have to put your "2 cents" in, but its value is only "A penny's worth". Who gets that extra penny? </font color=blue>
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