Intel Corp (INTC)

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greg s the problem is that Intel never typically holds back on touting the virtues of a new chip. And saying it has more transistors and is smaller (but only 15%)means very little. It's all about performance and AMD has taken back the lead. Also a supposed 30% decrease in the cost of making Prescotts over Northwoods by 2005 is incorrect if you figure in wafer prices and declining yields after a die shrink. All Intel can do is stick hope that their optimizations are taken advantage of by the software community ASAP or they will be falling further behind. Don't forget a 64 bit version of Windows is coming which is going to help AMD.