Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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Don't worry about price. If Intel starts churning these out on 65 with all that capacity, the price will come down to levels the market is accustomed to paying. Dothan prices will drop as production increases and after they've juiced all they can out of the early adopters and fanboys.

My point is that it is a good idea that will find an eager market when it ramps up and prices drop.

I know AMD plans dual-core Opteron, but without contracting out for fab space, they cannot dual-core their desktop chips for some time to come. But I don't think that will matter in the next 2-3 years...

I'll go on the record to say that it's absurd to believe Intel and analyst assertions that these dual-core chips will be generally available in 2005. 2006 or 7 more like it. Unless this has been a secret project for a long time (which I doubt), then there's a massive amount of work to be done, as current iAMD64 implementation is for NetBurst architecture--that will have to get designed from scratch--all dual core talk was about NetBurst--that will also have to get designed from scratch. Really, much more work than going from say k7 to k8. I wouldn't be surprised to see a single-core version of Dothan64 come out first to satisfy the market until they get all the kinks out of dual-core. And even that is more than a year away at best (worst?).