wbmw,
I'm betting that the Israeli designed core will be the next really great thing since the P6 (or perhaps even rivaling it).
Banias/Dothan and when released, Yonah/Merom will likely avert the meltdown Intel was leading up to with their EPIC and Netburst micro-architectures. But it is yet to be seen if it will achieve performance leadership that P6 had during some periods of its life time.
One thing is pretty clear, which is that this series of cores will provide huge improvements (on balance of features such as performance, power consumption, manufacturability, die size) over legacy Netburst and EPIC microarchitectures.
It remains to be seen where the competition will be in the future, so comparisons vs. the competition will have to wait for a while.
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