Zeus_Hunt Posted September 27, 2006 Share Posted September 27, 2006 At an early morning keynote address to open the semi-annual Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco, CEO Paul Otellini confirmed what hardware industry resources had already known for weeks: A Core 2 Extreme quad-core processor is coming this November for the enthusiast segment of the PC market, with Core 2 Quad processors for the mainstream segment and Quad-Core Xeon server processors soon to follow in the first quarter of next year.It will be Intel's best opportunity in years to effectively grind competitor AMD's nose into the silicon dirt, if you will, with regard to both price and performance. Last July's introduction of the Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme desktop PC processors, based on Intel's Conroe architecture, saw a dramatic leap in both performance and power efficiency in a category that AMD had dominated for the past few years.Suddenly, Intel's top-of-the-line models exhibited 33 percent better performance than their previous models, by independent analysis, and 27.5 percent better performance than AMD's top-of-the-line Athlon 64 FX-62.But today, Otellini made an extremely bold claim, which, if disproven by hardware analysts, could put a damper on what would otherwise be considered solid performance gains. He claimed the new Core 2 Extreme quad-core, likely to be given the model number QX6700, will exhibit 70 percent better performance than the company's current X6800.The likelihood of that delta actually being borne out is low. Overall performance is generally measured by enthusiasts -- the very segment to whom Intel intends to target its first quad-core -- as a mixture or average of rankings in several departments. On the other hand, one or two benchmarks might have to post stellar gains of this degree, if the company is to make its case that a quad-core processor is a better value than two dual-core processors."Two dual-core processors" describes the architecture AMD is planning to release in mid-November, perhaps in tandem with the QX6700 announcement. Ironically, AMD might have the tougher case to make; if doubling up two FX-62s, essentially, doesn't produce just about double the performance of a single FX-62, analysts are likely to blame some unseen design deficiency. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warezist Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 The experiment of being compared to AMD's by '' independent analysis'' neatly missed out any elaberation or detail. :lol: AMD will no doubt piss on em' in Novemeber. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted September 29, 2006 Author Share Posted September 29, 2006 Core2 Duo does kick, of a similar AMD's procs, ass...MoreoverIntel also announced that it will be shipping around 1 million Quad Core units before AMD could ship a single one. In addition, Intel plans to include two new 45 nm fab locations and researches into the tera-flop technology.I have always been a AMD fan but AMD has to be worried now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warezist Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I don't think AMD need to worry at all. They persist in developing optimum processing power whilst Intel worry about sales of their chips in pre-made machines. i.e. I don't see Intel with the type of progressive attention to processing as AMD show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted October 1, 2006 Author Share Posted October 1, 2006 Intel worry about salesthey are all making the chips for sales...Its is like PS3 loosing the market to Xbox due to its delayed entry (not that it will not catchup once it comes out..it will still remain a catching job that it would be doing)... but just imagine if PS3 had come out earlier... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunder-GOLD Posted November 23, 2006 Share Posted November 23, 2006 I'm an INTEL fan. But I've seen AMD climbing up quickly. AMD is doing a great job. But always INTEL jump ahead them. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boulder omen Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 Intel is going to blow amd out of the water.this is going to be amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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