Duke,
It is cute. Imagination is where great ideas come from.
Can you show me any indications Intel is capable of producing this chip? It's starting to sound like the democrats running around bragging that their poles show an unnamed democrat will beat Bush yet all existing candidates don't have a snowball's chance. Bush may not be the best, but there are worse.
Looking at Prescott and Tejas and Itanium and the surrounding stories, where will this chip come from? If it's in skunkworks I would think Intel would have applied some of it's lessons learned already. Banias is the CPU that I think Intel has hit a home run on.
Using my imagination, I hope Intel has another team somewhere working on the next generation. Intel's current "duct-tape, tweaking, let's try this" team for the past five years is coming to an end. But who is going to tell Gelsinger or Otellini or Bryant it's time for a change?
Intel cannot make money off a CPU "to be named later". How long the PR effect will last, who knows. But will it last long enough? I've said in the past if Intel would worry about Intel and not AMD they would be a lot better off. It appears AMD does not make destroying Intel it's first goal anymore.
As someone once said, there is plenty of room for AMD and Intel in the markets. The consumer will win. Does Intel acknowledge this? With Otellini's admission of x86-64, it appears to me Intel has started listening to the customer.
Darn, this is a long post. What medication am I on?
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