Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Intel is now too far behind AMD64 technology to catch up on 64-bit x86. By the time Intel would be able to introduce a competitor to K8, K9 will be out.

???

Perhaps you need to learn the difference between ISA
architecture and CPU implementation. After how many years
and how many revisions of the ARM ISA did Intel step in
with XScale and grab most of the high end mindshare and
sockets? If you think there is something magical about a
64 bit x86 instruction set extension that would prevent
Intel from coming straight off the starting blocks with a
definitive implementation then you know little about Intel
or processor design.


The transition to 65nm. is probably the "tipping point" here. If AMD is able to pull that off -- K9 on 65nm. (I know K9 is supposed to be on 90nm. first, I'm talking about the first shrink), the microprocessor world as we know it will be turned upside down.

ROFLMAO. That paragraph belongs in a letter to Penthouse
magazine, all geek edition.