Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (228221)	3/16/2007 3:56:49 PM
From: eracer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Its not just about customer considering single cores. Its about customers considering how fast the cores run. You get a drop every time you increase the number of cores. As for considering single core, many don't because dual core is available, but if it was only a choice between single core and much slower quad core, single core would look better, and a number of knowledgeable customers would demand it. Seems to be more of a problem for AMD than Intel in the short-term. Right now quad-core is only one speed grade behind dual-core. In Q3 Intel's fastest quad-core will be 2.93GHz and fastest dual-core will be 3GHz, both of which will be much, much faster than any single-core Celeron than Intel offers. As far as price goes Intel has the low end priced competitively. A 2.4GHz quad-core will only cost about $100 more than the dual-core equivalent ($266 vs. $163). That is pretty small when considering the price of purchasing an entire system. While I don't want a quad-core CPU due to the higher price and power consumption, it will be attractive to many who feel that "more is better".