Even if AMD had a vastly superior superior microarchitecture (which they have had many times before) they still wouldn't be able to crush intel because they simple lack the manufacturing power to provide to major vendors like dell and hp in large quantities. That's what happened with athlon 64, everyone wanted a piece of it but they had to turn them down....kind of sad looking back. And actually intel didn't have to buy the licensing rights for A64 because intel and amd have adual patent agreement which is strictly upheld. Simple put any technology developed by either one belongs to both. But with global foundries new manufacturing plant on schedule to be up and running in 2011 amd will finally have the manufacturing power to provide to major vendors in large quantities. So the next time amd pulls another A64....well I don't even need to say anything else.
You forgot to mention how Athlon XP had more than 50% more performance per clock than pentium 4 in both integer and floating point math on average. Not to mention is did it with a much smaller architecture that consumed less power and had a much lower tdp. It was both more powerful and more efficient. I had a desktop with P4 northwood 2.5 Ghz and a system with an athlon xp 1.8 GHz and I can tell you my athlon xp system ran rings around the pentium 4.
Quote:This refers that in their first series of 7th gen processors, Intel is quite a winner, but AMD is using DDR which doubles the data transfer range
You forgot to mention how Athlon XP had more than 50% more performance per clock than pentium 4 in both integer and floating point math on average. Not to mention is did it with a much smaller architecture that consumed less power and had a much lower tdp. It was both more powerful and more efficient. I had a desktop with P4 northwood 2.5 Ghz and a system with an athlon xp 1.8 GHz and I can tell you my athlon xp system ran rings around the pentium 4.
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-Mark Antony