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[Wouter Tinus]

but only ~7% of total shipments in Q1 were X2 and that represented an increase of ~3% from the prior quarter

Interesting. Benchmark sites and enthousiasts usually just compare the latest and greatest boutique parts, but those don't move the market share. It looks like AMD will have to spend a lot of extra capacity to move the mainstream from single core to dual core. Intel is rapidly moving towards 100% in that area (should be around 50% already). Whatever small advantages an Athlon might have left when Merom/Conroe arrive will be swiped away if the Intel product has an extra core to offer.

With all those cheap Pentium D 9xx floating around now they might even be able to gain some before Core 2 really kicks in.