AMD's advantage vanishes when Intel's Core 2 released
WinInfo | at | by Mike
According to leading hardware analysts, AMD's technological lead over market leader Intel will evaporate when Intel ships its Core 2 Duo line of processors later this year. A slew of independent benchmarks pitting Intel's upcoming chips against AMD's best microprocessors might provide AMD with some sobering news. Not only are the Intel chips faster, but they're much cheaper in many cases and suck up less power. AMD has enjoyed a multiyear lead over Intel in such technologies as multicore processors and x64 compatibility. But with the Core 2 Duo, which will ship in variants for notebooks, desktops, and servers, Intel seems to have finally caught up and even surpassed AMD in many meaningful ways (but not, curiously, in x64). I hope that AMD has a few surprises left. We all know what happens when you wake the sleeping giant.