Intel Corp (INTC)

[Elmer Phud]

AMD doesn't seem to be able to keep up. Why don't they just cherry pick a few chips and introduce 3000+? Paper yes, but that's about all they ship at the high end these days.

Well because there aren't any, cherry picked or not. Have you looked at pricewatch? There aren't even any 2400+s. The 2400+ & 2600+ announcements came just days before Intel shipped 2.8GHz P4s in volume and the upcoming 2800+ is just as nonexistant.

Maybe you're saying that as long as AMD can't deliver, they might as well not deliver 3000+ as 2800+. So why not vapor launch Hammer? The only reason I can see is that they'd had to at least give some reviewers samples and then the world would find out how badly Hammer performs and AMD can't afford to do that.

EP