Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[HailMary]

P-M evolution with major enhancements; or else it would have little chance of meeting the performance/watt claims that Intel has made publicly.

Seems to me a P-M is already a performance/watt leader at a given frequency. If Intel just enhanced this core so it could run at 3Ghz, they would have a winner in performance/watt and performance as they have claimed. I don't see why the big leap is necessary, and Intel openly admits it is derived from P-M. That is unless you are arguing that Intel can't achieve 3Ghz without majorly ripping up the pipeline and then adding in more features to gain back performance per clock. At that point, how do you even argue it is P-M derived? Where do you draw the line what is a new core and what is not? For all we know K8L is a rip up as well. So saying AMD has no new core until 2009 and Intel does is not really fair until we hear more details of both NGA and K8L.