What has happened to Intel lately?

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Yup. Technically they beat Intel by a few months with bobcat. Of course bobcat sold poorly and was limited to ultra low power platforms only so nobody really cared . Not that any of this really matters with regards to the future. Moving to die integration a few months earlier/later than the competition hardly effected anything. What will be really important is how long AMD can hold onto HSA as an AMD only feature. Since at this point they've pretty much bet the entire future of their company on its success. It seems kind of stupid to me but then again I can see why they're going through with it. It's their only remaining option at this point now that they have no remaining chance of beating Intel in "conventional" cpu performance and energy efficiency.

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All the tech analysts are talking about HSA as the big thing that's going to turn everything around for AMD. They won't shut up about it. Well I'm not buying it this time. Not until it actually comes out and proves itself to be everything they claim it's going to be. They've been talking about "the big thing" that AMD is going to use to whip Intel back into its place for years now. Remember when Intels Conroe didn't stand a chance against K8L? When deneb was going to crush nehalem? When bulldozer was going to crush sandy bridge? I'm still here. Still waiting for it to happen. Every time they hype up the press it all comes crashing down when the product is actually released and it turns out that their claims were based on falsified data, gross exaggerations, and deliberate misinterpretations. This has made me extremely skeptical of anything they say. It's not that I want AMD to fail. I just have a really hard time believing their bullshit after being burned so many times in the past. Now they're heading their most ambitious project yet while their once abundant supply of capital has all but dried up at this point. And once again making some really crazy and hard to swallow claims. Worst of all these claims about absurd performance gains across the board from some new special sauce technology that's going to be really easy for software developers to implement sound exactly like what I've heard from them in the past. I can only hope that they're right for once. But I'm not holding my breath.