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."

Comments

Price war

[Ginger Unicorn]

hopefully this means AMD will revert to trying to compete on price and so i can afford to get a modern setup ;)

Re:Intel has been catching up lately...

[WhiteWolf666]

I'm a big AMD fan, but this is true.

Lately AMD's development rate has slowed. Initially, I suspected they did this to hold better product back until Intel became competitive again, but after a year or so I believe they started to sit on their laurels.

The new intel designs will push AMD to work harder, which is a good thing. AMD's developers are very, very talented. It's sad to see the business side of the operation (even though its very practical for them) to tell the developers to slow down a little bit.

Expect AMD to start going full-tilt again.

Fluff?

[Zebadias]

I actually read the link and found it dull and lacking in any real excitment.

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

Irony!

[SolitaryMan]

The page showed me an AMD ad with this article. Was enough for me to know "near term future of intel" :)

AMD - Time to wakeup

[Anonymous Coward]

While AMD has clearly have a better processor now, it looks very complacent now. Especially when they should be looking at being more menacing by aggressive Research.

Alas nothing of that sort is happening. Still resting on the glory of the on-die memory controller, the core is now 7 years old!

Every other chip company is doing interesting things.
1. Sun Niagra T1 is amazing
2. IBM Cell rocks!
3. Intel Itanic may have failed, but was no doubt interesting.

Well ... AMD please move on. We acknowledge you have won. But the next battle is starting this week.

Re:TFA is weak, Here is Anand's updated benchmarks

[Billosaur]

From AnandTech: The performance picture with regards to Conroe hasn't really changed all that much - on average we're still seeing a bit over a 20% increase in performance over an overclocked Athlon 64 FX-60. While it's worth noting that these results should be taken with a grain of salt, we really were not able to determine any cause for suspicion based on Intel's setups. The machines were as clean as they could get, with the BIOS oversight having no tangible impact on most performance.

So Intel is finally catching up to and beating AMD in some regards. Mind you this is only one set of tests, but it may be indicative of a tightening of the processor battle.

Improvements?

[Kilz]

But Intel presented their case strongly, suggesting they can match AMD, if not beat them. Im waiting to see an independent head to head comparison. That Intel can beat AMD using 2 computers they set up is not a shock. Its possible to do all sorts of low underhanded tricks to make one computer run better than another.