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Re: AMD may have big plans for 2007

That's not what the article says. The public opinion of AMD's execution has gone from:

- Deerhound quad core in Q3 2007
- Greyhound dual core in Q4 2007

To:

- Rev-G quad core in Q2 2007
- Hounds in Q1 2008

I wouldn't call that an improvement, even if it does accelerate quad cores by one quarter. So now Intel only has a 2 quarter lead in the ultra high end, and they'll still be faster than AMD in everything else through next year.

And by the way, I don't buy Charlie's "Elephant drinking through a straw" metaphor for Clovertown. Memory bandwidth means a lot in workstation apps, but as tests have already shown, Opteron has scores more memory bandwidth than Woodcrest and still loses in the vast majority of apps.