The Near Future of Intel

wh0pper wrote to mention a Design Technica story about the near-term future of Intel. They've been getting beaten in the press pretty soundly by AMD of late, and at the Intel Developer's Forum they did their best to convince attendees they were on the comeback trail. From the article: "It wouldn't be IDF if there wasn't a solid performance message. This time, Intel clearly had AMD in their sights. By a series of their products' massive performance improvements, Intel hit the ball back into AMD's court. With Microsoft's Vista operating system coming out at the same time, Intel showed how they have the higher performing solution. Clearly, we won't know until final systems ship. But Intel presented their case strongly, suggesting they can match AMD, if not beat them."

Gets you thinking...

[0110011001110101]

FTFA - Think of being able to set up a secure network in 3-1/2 minutes after you have plugged in the hardware.

Think of putting that network up for a hacking challenge on the web and having it totally violated in even less time than it took you to setup... Phew!! Good thing Intel isnt inside an Apple... ohhh shit. [ducks]

/ssharcasm

Yay go Intel!

[Anonymous Coward]

Intel intel, he's our man
if he cant do it, I BET AMD CAN!

How is this news? Intel's BRAND NEW processor can outperform a 1+ year old AMD X2?

Hey did you know that I can slap a buncha logic chips together and create a faster processor than ENIAC? DEAR GOD SOMEONE GIVE ME A MEDAL!

getCPUId()

[OzPhIsH]

I can't help but wonder if Vista won't be making any mysterious and unnecessary getCPUid() calls....

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Good

[JRGhaddar]

Competition => Innovation

Innovation => Faster/Better Chips

Faster/Better Chips => Faster/Better Comps

Faster/Better Comps => Giant Robots

And I for one want a giant robot.

Performance improvements

[jrumney]

By a series of their products' massive performance improvements

Let me guess - they demonstrated how Intel's top end chips can handle 10 way conference calls with Skype, while AMD's only handle 5?

Re:Fluff?

[Not_Wiggins]

So if you have not RTFA then don't worry your[sic] not missing anything!

You're advising the /. crowd that they don't have to RTFA? You must be new here! 8D

Re:You really think it works that way?

[4e617474]

last i checked, physics hasn't changed too much

Maybe you need to check more often then every 350 years. Fortunately, the Journal of Applied Physics has some RSS feeds [aip.org].

pshaw!

[Thud457]

Independent lab testing proves Pirate Monkeys will beat Robot Ninjas 97.6 % of the time.