Good-bye, Pentium--hello, Core 2 Duo

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I didn't realize that AMD accomplished such an impossible task....: ``SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Intel officially closed the books on the Pentium era on Thursday with the Core 2 Duo, its most important product launch in 13 years.''

Congratulations AMD! If you weren't around with a vision that was different from that of Intel's, people would STILL be "enjoying" the infamous NetBURP architecture now possibly with 62 stages and running @ 10.0GHz .... Would would had thought that punny AMD would have such a tremenduous impact on ... Intel.

Competition IS GOOD. Only if MS could wake up and smell the donuts.... but that's a completely different and sadder story.

"This is not just an incremental change, this is a revolutionary leap," Intel CEO Paul Otellini said at a launch event here, held in a heavily air-conditioned tent. The last time the company held such an event at its headquarters was when it introduced the Pentium processor in 1993, a similarly important milestone in its history.''

You mean to say that since 1993 Intel was doing NOTHING in the desktop processors? Just bumpinh up the clock speed and it was just increasing pipeline stages?

I thought Intel should KNOW BETTER than that.

But Intel exhausted its energy in the superbly successful IA64 ... No?

Ohhhh it was Opteron's real success that made Intel to wake up and start thinking of an x86-64 solution...

Why did Intel botch so hard IA64 and for such a long time?

Is it a "glorious success" for the behemoth Intel to be able to FINALLY AFTER THREE YEARS manage to get some performance lead in the .... desktop processors over tiny AMD?

Let's not forget that the AMD's processor that was surpassed was designed to compete with the asinine Pentium4. And it did this very successfully.

How about the Itanium-2 ? It is STILL an underperformer in its class. After Intel neglected it for THREE years and let its enthousiasts to get completely turned off, it slapped 2 cores in the same chip, changed to 90nm feture size and called it "montecito". Still is lags behind existing Power5+ currently available at 1.9 and 2.2GHz.

So YES Intel AT LAST DID SOMETHING BETTER, but the size and time of this accomplishment is FAR BELOW what Intel is expected to be able to do, given how much better punny AMD has performed.

Now let's see AMD's reply to Conroe/Woodcrest and Montecito. Imagine if Intel's moderate success is reversed in a few months.... but we will wait and see

--m; Posted by: michael_t Posted on: 07/27/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use