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01/06/06 1:31 AM

#68909 RE: wbmw #68906

So, then, anyone buying Intel desktops should cancel and wait for Conroe, and for servers, while Intel has already suggested cancelling all Paxville orders by demoing Dempsey, even Dempsey orders should be cancelled for Woodcrest.

Now, if you need a desktop before Q3, or a server before Q4, clearly you need to go with AMD. In H2, there'll be more competitive offerings from Intel, so you could make a reasonable Intel choice, well, unless AMD decides to ship the QC Opterons they'll have in waiting from March onward. Then, in server, you have a repeat of 2005, essentially: Intel closes the gap early on at high power, then AMD doubles the number of cores relative to Intel parts and blows them away.