“AMD has no answer to the armada of new Intel’s CPUs.”

“Penryn will be the final blow.”

These two sentences have been showing up on a lot of hardware forums around the Internet. The situation in the desktop is close to desperate for AMD as it can hardly keep pace with the third highest clocked Core 2 Duo CPU, and there are several quad core chips – either high clocked expensive ones or cheaper midrange models – that AMD simply has no answer for at present. As AMD gets closer to the launch of their own quad core, even at a humble 2GHz, Intel let the world know it will deliver a 3GHz quad core Xeon with 12 MB L2 that only needs 80W, and Intel showed that 3.33GHz is just around the corner too. However, there is a reason why Intel is more paranoid than the many hardware enthusiasts.

While most people focus on the fact that Intel’s Core CPUs win almost every benchmark in the desktop space, the battle in the server space is far from over. Look at the four socket market for example, also called the 4S space. As we showed in our previous article, the fastest Xeon MP at 3.4GHz is about as fast as the Opteron at 2.6GHz. Not bad at all, but today AMD introduces a 3.2GHz Opteron 8224, which extends AMD’s lead in the 4S space. This lead probably won’t last for long, as Intel is very close to introducing its newest quad core Xeon MP Tigerton line, but it shows that AMD is not throwing in the towel. Along with the top-end 3.2GHz 8224 (120W), a 3GHz 8222 at 95W, 3.2GHz Opteron 2224 (120W) and 3GHz 2222 (95W) are also being introduced.

The 3.2GHz Opteron 2224 is quite interesting, as it is priced at $873. This is the same price point as the dual core Intel Xeon 5160 at 3GHz and the quad core Intel Xeon 5355. The contrast with the desktop market is sharp: not one AMD desktop CPU can be found in the higher price ranges. So how does AMD’s newest offering compare to the two Intel CPUs? Is it just an attempt at deceiving IT departments into thinking the parts are comparable, or does AMD have an attractive alternative to the Intel CPUs?
from:
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=3057

and about the one who said about the jews and israel being the better human minds, from were that comes from? in the fact that intel is making the chips there? thas is the most stupid asamption a have ever heard if that was true then the malaisians ant taiwan are the smartes off all becouse all the electronics are made there. hahahah.
what islrael has offered to the world and civilization nothing,and dont forget the first computer was constructed and worked in greece 2.500 years ago so go read some history
before saying that jews are smartest than anyone else in the world what about the greeks the egyptians the chinese with so many years of history and innovations that the modrn world is now enjoying?

Very true – if AMD go under, Intel have no competition – thus they can hike up the prices, delay release of products and generally hold all us Intel users to ransom knowing full well we have no alternative.

we can only hope for a even worst tomorrow….

Maybe AMD should sell off their CPU making division and go back to being just ATI.

Curse you spam filter!

Also, it was a completely painful experience to read your post, I think reading encrypted codes is easier than reading that.

But remember what happened when Intel put out the Pentium CPUs, forcing AMD to develop their own processors, putting out the K5, K6 and finally the Athlon processors.

Everything will fall into place eventually.

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Also, it was a completely painful experience to read your post, I think reading encrypted codes is easier than reading that.

But remember what happened when Intel put out the Pentium CPUs, forcing AMD to develop their own processors, putting out the K5, K6 and finally the Athlon processors.

Everything will fall into place eventually.