well AMD will be bringing out AM2+ soon and that is suppose to be 40% faster then any current cpu which will put it ahead of even an overclocked intel. The intel core 2 duo range will obviously then begin die down
AM2+ is supposed to compete with intel upcoming 45nm processors, not the current processors.
And AMD are ones who claimed that it is 40% than current CPU, but there is no evidence, there no benchmarks for AM2+ yey