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Yeah its not like they are making a really fast chip that's for sure. But be honest, its not like they are pricing them that high either. When you see the cost of the AMD 2.4ghz solution the Intel solution becomes more tenable. However, if Intel doesn't see the writing on the wall with the locks on the 915/925 and the resulting sales, they'll be in for a rude surprise if they keep that up with teh 955. Not everyone needed to overcome the lock, but just having them there on top of DDR2 gave many reason to steer clear. Put a nice Nforce4 solution out there for both AMD and Intel and the 955 will flop like a dog if they don't learn from that.
Now honestly, the AMD solution isn't going to run at 2.4ghz until late 05 or early 06. The dual cores will come but they will be slower at first. Secondly AMD will price them accordingly. And that won't be cheap. Which will perform better? Oh most definitely the A64 dual core. Which will people biuy? Well that depends a lot on what Intel produces chipset wise and then a mix of pricing and performance of either sides solution. Then it will depend on availability. What I think will happen is Intel will try the lock thing again, and totally DDR2 on all models and I think that will hurt them far more just on a word of mouth scale than they ever planned on. That might well make 2005 yet another year of opportunity for AMD. Intel is kinda big and dumb when it comes to things like this, so that's my $.02
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[Posted by: Anemone | Date: 02/01/05 04:06:25 AM]