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To: Sarmad Y. Hermiz who wrote (219635)	12/8/2006 1:05:19 PM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Sarmad Courtesy of Windsock overclockers.com AMD hasn't had a good week or so. One, they released 2X2 cores that lost practically every meaningful test to Intel's Kentsfield with almost twice the power consumption. Everyone was so impressed that AMD cut the price before charging it. Two, they "showed off" a 65nm 4-core running Task Manager rather than tasks. Guess it's better to be a manager than a worker. Third, they "released" 65nm chips, and showed them off to nobody, and nobody seemed to mind. Fourth, they found the need to "instant rebate" most of their dual-core processors about 10%. Finally, it doesn't look like the 65nm CPUs AMD plans to release about a year from now will reach the raw GHz speeds Intel's current dual- and quad-core chips. We're seeing 2.5GHz max for quads, 2.9GHz for duallies. Given that AMD's current chips do rather less per clock cycle than Intel's chips, it's hard to see how these chips can be tweaked to exceed what Intel has today, much less the 3.5GHz/4GHz 45nm quad/duallies from Intel that will begin to show up around the same time.