I have to say the recent Phenom debut is a total disappointment for me. And if you look at the upcoming 45nm Yorkfield: the benchmark show it literally blew away eveything in the past Q66xx parts. Considering Phenom is having trouble even with a meager Q6600 right now. This is going to be a slaughter. Not to mention the penryne is coming next year that improves IPC even more.
Despite of this, Intel is introducing the QX9770 at a 1k price point which is kind of pretty ridiculous. I was thinking, if Phenom say is 20% faster IPC-wise compare to core, Intel would probably be pricing this thing like couple of hundred less. So that's how important we need AMD right now. If things keep going this way, we might be buying CPUs like the old days, $500 and up a piece and no bargaining!
Personally, I think Intel is too big and deep pocketed as of now and need to be broken into smaller pieces for competition to be fairer. AMD is also to be blamed for their recent troubles. We need at least two if not more competitors in this CPU market.
Despite of this, Intel is introducing the QX9770 at a 1k price point which is kind of pretty ridiculous. I was thinking, if Phenom say is 20% faster IPC-wise compare to core, Intel would probably be pricing this thing like couple of hundred less. So that's how important we need AMD right now. If things keep going this way, we might be buying CPUs like the old days, $500 and up a piece and no bargaining!
Personally, I think Intel is too big and deep pocketed as of now and need to be broken into smaller pieces for competition to be fairer. AMD is also to be blamed for their recent troubles. We need at least two if not more competitors in this CPU market.