A plethora of different benchmarks have now been presented to the doubters here on the Intel thread. Those who think the competition hasn't at least temporarily caught up with Intel's technology have their head firmly buried in the sand.
Fortunately for Intel share holders, the competition can't make them in volume (yet). Also, they don't have as good name recognition, or as big advertising budgets, or as much money for R&D, or as good relations with software and box makers, or as good manufacturing processes, etc. Fortunately for Intel investors, the microprocessor represents only about 10 % or 15% of the cost of a complete computer, so for the minimal total unit price difference most cutomers feel safer with a known brand name. I believe that the giant has been awakened by this threat, and we will see Intel produce new and exciting products at a rapid enough rate to leave the competition in the dust. If not, the PC will be reduced to a commodity product within 3 or 4 years, and Intel will just be one of the pack subsisting on heavy competition and low profit margins. Time will tell. |
