Comb: re: "Intel needs to listen to their customers instead of trying to drive the market where they want it to go."
Right on!. We all know why Intel is pushing Dual core on the public. They could not match AMD performance/Watt even after pushing the BTX box onto an unwanting industry, so dual core seemed like the answer to their prayers:
Let's put two cores on a chip like AMD was doing for servers, run them at half speed to get 1/4 power each, and voila - same performance at 1/2 the power! And AMD won't have enough silicon area production capacity to eat into our market share when we market dual core to the public as a must have. Brilliant!!
Couple of problems.
1. Doubling the core does not double the performance of most applications. Most people want a fast response out of their computer to open a new browser window or other application, and could care less about some heavy number crunching in the background. Gamers want their single threaded games to run fast, which they do best on a fast single core.
2. Intel doesn't have a good inter-core communication and on-chip memory controllers with HT, and have to load the bus with so much traffic. Their solution is to add massive cache, which unfortunately adds back some heat, put what the heck - we can market it as a major advantage.....
What a POS company!
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