Intel's New Architecture Too Late?

rts008 writes to tell us that TG Daily has an interesting interview with Randy Allen, AMD's vice president of the server products division, about (among other things) AMD's recent stellar fourth quarter numbers. From the article: "Responsible for that shrinking lead is especially AMD's server products group. Intel's CEO Paul Otellini recently acknowledged that Intel had to give up market shares to AMD and will likely be forced to hand over more shares until the next generation of server chips arrives. [...] AMD's Randy Allen explains in this conversation with TG Daily why he believes that Intel will need much more than a new processor to be able to slow AMD's growth."

Comments

And this is a surprise?

[joib]

AMD exec says AMD is better than its competitor. Earth shattering news!

Mactels

[Anonymous Coward]

Well it's a good thing that Apple is using Intel now otherwise they would really be in a hole.

Re:Here's the short answer...

[wbren]

You are giving a very incomplete answer.

That's the whole point of "the short answer". Providing an incomplete and misleading answer is the best way to succeed. Why, just ask any politician!

Re:cats and bags

[edwdig]

Considering Intel is dropping the "Intel Inside" logo as part of their rebranding, those PHB's better figure it out soon...

Re:cats and bags

[DigiShaman]

Last time I tried putting a cat in a bag, I ended up getting my face clawed.

I'm trying make this into an analogy. I can't. But cats and bags just dredges up bad memories.

Carry on.

I have learned something by reading this thread!

[ZenShadow]

What I have learned:

1. Intel has faster processors than AMD.
    
2. AMD has faster processors than Intel.
    
3. Intel has better battery life than AMD.
    
4. AMD has better battery life than Intel.
    
5. Intel dual-cores do better than AMD on multi-tasking.
    
6. AMD dual-cores do better than Intel on multi-tasking.
   

I never knew that having all the facts could be this simple! Thanks, Slashdot!

--S

Re:I have learned something by reading this thread

[Anonymous Coward]

Who said quantum computing was years away?

Re:cats and bags

[dajak]

1. Put bag on floor with opening to the side.
2. Wait until curious cat goes into bag to investigate.
3. Profit.

Re:question

[poot_rootbeer]

It is pissing me off how long it is taking to get hand-optimised AMD64 routines for tight inner loops in various common algorithms.

Here, I wrote a highly-efficient 64-bit null loop for you in assembly:

: loop
JMP loop

Re:cats and bags

[Weedlekin]

It's an old analogy, coined when men were men, cats were cats, and bags were bags. In those days, a man would stuff fifty or even a hundred cats into bags before breakfast without even breaking a sweat, go and do a full day's hard manual work, and then stuff another load of cats into bags before supper.