Don't forget that the high end processor market isn't the only one. AMD are definitely on par at the higher end market. But what about the poor beggers (students like me) who can't buy a new Athlon or Coppermine on a whim?. The release of the 533 Mhz Celeron, with more to budget chips to come shows a good attitude to the entire consumer market from Intel. I can't really say the same of AMD, with still no sign of a budget chip I'd consider looking at (i.e. with Level 2 cache). They seem to be concerned a bit too much with winning the speed race...
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Don't forget that the high end processor market isn't the only one. AMD are definitely on par at the higher end market. But what about the poor beggers (students like me) who can't buy a new Athlon or Coppermine on a whim?. The release of the 533 Mhz Celeron, with more to budget chips to come shows a good attitude to the entire consumer market from Intel. I can't really say the same of AMD, with still no sign of a budget chip I'd consider looking at (i.e. with Level 2 cache). They seem to be concerned a bit too much with winning the speed race...