Come on AMD, you know I got your back...
But this simply cannot stand! Get the led out and catch up! get moving!
Intel hits AMD with quad-core 70% performance boost
By Stan Beer Thursday, 28 September 2006
Intel is pulling out all stops to turn up the heat on its smaller but more nimble rival AMD. The latest salvo comes with the announcement that the new quad-core Core 2 Extreme chips for the high performance games market will be available in November sporting a whopping 70% performance hike.
AMD has tried to gain a lot of political capital from the fact that Intel's new quad-core package is not really a quad-core chip but in fact two dual-core chips "stitched together". However, Intel CEO Paul Otellini has a point when he says that consumers don't care whether they're getting four cores on a single die or four cores spread across two chips. What they care about is performance.
And performance is what Intel has been focussing on and delivering in spades for the past six months.
The dual-core Core 2 Extreme blew its AMD Athlon counterparts out of the water in benchmark tests and the Core 2 Duo has proven to be a winner in both the notebook and desktop space.
With its new quad-core offering, Intel has turned the spiggot up a notch or two. The November release for the gamer market is one thing, but the real pressure on AMD will be applied with the release of the Core 2 Quad for the mainstream desktop and notebook markets in Q1 2007.
