TriEclipse
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KNiGHTMaRe89 said:what's the deal with AMD lately. it seems like their getting manhandled by Intel.
it's like there not the same as they once used to be...
does anyone have any info about what's the deal here?
They are getting manhandled, that's the point. And its not the end of the world, AMD isn't exactly going to go out of business because of this.
KNiGHTMaRe89 said:after reading those articles, i think AMD has something very big up there sleeves and when they drop their bombshell people are gonna crap themselves.
Yes yes, the crystal ball. We have seen it before. You know what I predict? That as soon as AMD drops this bombshell of theirs, Intel is going to drop a bigger bombshell just a few months later, again manhandling AMD. Except the thing is, I have more facts to back up my prediction that you have yours.
AMD has no bombshell. They have a new architecture called K8L. It is supposed to be released in Q3 2007. It will have been a year since Intel released their Core 2 Duo by the time AMD releases their answer. The K8L has been designed to be competition for the Core 2 Duo, not necessarily overtake it. But lets say that AMD's answer is better than what the Core 2 Duos are right now; what do you think Intel is doing? Sitting around smoking cigars? Hardly. There are better, faster models of the current Core 2 Duo series already on the way. One year is a long time to be late, and the competition usually has an answer for your product.
But that's not even the beginning. AMD's new processors on K8L will be 65nm ones. One Quarter (anywhere from 1-3 months) after AMD releases their K8L series, Intel is releasing their 45nm shrink of the Core 2 Duo, named the Penryn. With better instruction sets, further Core architecture advances, and clockspeeds ranging from 3.5-4.0Ghz, Intel is going to wipe the floor with AMD's K8L processors (clocked from 2.0-2.9Ghz). So even if AMD manages to beat the improved Core 2 Duos with K8L, it will have 3 months or so before having to face Penryn's assault. AMD's 3-month dominance period with K8L won't be nearly as impressive as the 3-year dominance period of the Athlon 64s.