Intel Tick Tock slows down: Sandy Bridge slips into 2011?

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http://www.brightsideofnews.com/new...-slows-down-sandy-bridge-slips-into-2011.aspx

"Lack of competition hurts the market - AMD's continuous delays of their next-gen CPU architecture combined with Intel's ill-fated effort on Larrabee resulted in a slowdown of the Tick-Tock cadence."

"At the top, the i7 980X will wipe the floor with anything AMD has right now, or any stepping they may come out with, in 2010. And at the low end, the dual core highly overclockable Westmeres can hold their own against entry level quad core AMDs."

EDIT: This is surprising to me. Wasn't AMD hoping to start production of Bulldozer in 1H 2010 according to one source?

Besides economic reasons, it may be part of the agreement they had with AMD, which requires Intel to partially stop working on Larrabee and to slow down the pace of introducing new products.
AMD may have argued, "Hey, you have illegally making tons of money to invest in R&D and fabs, do something about it."
I don't think $1.25B and a new 5-year x86 abreement are enough to convince AMD to drop all charges.
I do hope healthy competion alive.

 

[Nemesis 1]

I'm not caring that much about new cpus these days

What I want is chipsets with integrated USB3 and SATA 3 (integrated by AMD or Intel) and next generation SSD drives.

I was hoping someone would mention this . Do ya remember when Intel was slow at releasing the USB3 specs . All here were saying Intel was trying to get ahead start on all others . I lol at that and was hammered hard for my thoughts on that subject . Guess you all were wrong about that topic . Time reveals all trueths and destroys all lies.