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Intel and AMD's 2005 Plans Revealed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the smaller-faster-cooler-or-maybe-not dept.

Takemedown writes "There's a good article on CTZ that talks about Intel and AMD's plans. Intel, continuing on their 18-month chipset refresh rate, will introduce their Glenwood and Lakeport chipsets for the Smithfield dual core desktop microprocessor in 2005. The chipsets will support SATA II, Matrix RAID and a higher system bus speed for the new Pentium 4 name holder. As far as Intel's dual core strategies are concerned, they will most likely bring their dual core additions by the very end of Q2 or Q3 this year, so for those waiting for these next generation chips are better off with a due upgrade. Secondly, if you are hoping for a noticeable performance gain in regular computing tasks are in for a disappointment. Dual core microprocessors are for those who like to do multitasking or work on multithreaded applications. For example, if you are gaming and burning a DVD at the same time, dual core chips will come in handy and will definitely give a smooth computing experience."

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  1. The one reason I went intel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Was because of motherboard chipsets and linux drivers.

    AMD, whilst whooping intel in the price/performance, has been on again off again with motherboard chipset support because they outsource it to other companies.

    I am surprised this doesn't affect the intel vs AMD fanboi wars here on slashdot. But I guess most of you are using MSIE on Windows.... I can't believe firefox hasn't broken 50% in the slashdot community....

    But anyway, drivers and the extent of their openness and support are important to some nerds who aren't willing to shell over cash for features they don't get to use.

  2. Here's what I can't figure out by Corellon+Larethian · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dual core socket 939. How the hell is that different from a socket 940, Opteron 2xx?

    Sure, 512meg L2 cache. Ok. Opterons ship with 1meg.

    Amd-8000 (specifically, the AMD-8151 AGP "bridge) chipset incompatibility with the Ati Radeons. Ok. The socket 939's will have something else.

    What is the point in having two different processors trying to do the exact same thing? Hello chuck socket 939, and put 940's in there. Then get rid of PCI-X, and stuff PCI-E in there.

    AMD needs to offer two different procesors (Opterons and Semprons), and a single socket design. They are foolish to tool different plants for 100's of different things, when their chip yields are so low. Marketing "strategy" or no, they need to be churning out as many workable processors as they can, and let the overclockers figure out what's the best buy.

    That is what has put them where they are today. That's the way they can "fight" Intel and win. That's what is going to pull in assloads of investors, splitting their stock, and running up revenue on the quarterly.

    Put the marketing division on a paid holiday in Iraq, and let the engineers do their jobs.