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Intel delays new 45nm processors

pastymuncher said:
Intel, just as any other IT company, does'nt give a stuff about their consumers. It's all about profits. Why release something when the only thing that competes against it is something that they make themselves? This is exactly why we need AMD to get their heads out of their backsides and actually release something competitive.

Next thing we know Nvidia will be doing the same as AMD has already said there will be no high end release from them until 2009. This is all bad for us. Delayed launches and before we know it the prices will go up due to there being no competition. :(
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Dead right.

I rekon Intel doing a boxing job on AMD, AMD's down and had a count of 5 seconds so when AMD get to 9 seconds just getting up off the floor and good old Intel will introduce a better one = AMD out for the count.

I really hope not because if it does happen Intel will milk us then with no competition:mad:
 
sammie377 said:
Dead right.

I rekon Intel doing a boxing job on AMD, AMD's down and had a count of 5 seconds so when AMD get to 9 seconds just getting up off the floor and good old Intel will introduce a better one = AMD out for the count.

I really hope not because if it does happen Intel will milk us then with no competition:mad:
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It's been said time and time again, AMD are not out of the way, and wont be for a long long time. High end is only a VERY small percentage of the market, amd still offer some exceedingly good budget stuff, and have the server market etc etc... this is where most of the money comes in. Same with amd, they have quite a few of the standard desktop market cornered with their products. Not seen the last of AMD yet.

But i do agree, from our point of view, intel are just gonna sit back and laugh at us as we will always pay a premium on high end stuff...
 
intel are probably being careful that they DONT let AMD die... intel would probably get sued due to that the only competitor in the x86 market would be VIA which doesnt really count as a competitor.
 
mattyrigby00 said:
intel are probably being careful that they DONT let AMD die... intel would probably get sued due to that the only competitor in the x86 market would be VIA which doesnt really count as a competitor.
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I wonder if there isn't a bit of truth in this. I doubt Intel want to kill off AMD completely, but rather just keep them at the point where they have a minimal impact on their profits.
 
I take it then that sony don't have any ambitious plans for their cell processor?. All those processing cores running at the same time should make ray tracing etc so fast that current Intel and AMD offerings wouldn't even register on a computational power scale.

So why no sony in the CPU wars?
 
Sony Toshiba and IBM developed Cell in a joint venture.

It's not really useful for running an operating system - At least not for day-to-day use applications anyhow- much like a GPU isn't useful for running an operating system. The Cell's floating point power is huge right? Around 460GFLOPS? The GeForce 8800 GTS (G92) performs around 485GFLOPS, but neither of these processors are suitable for running a windows based OS. Cell for one completely lacks branch prediction. Its double precision floating point performance is acceptable but nothing special. It's not really geared towards desktop computing...
 
I see that The Inquirer (yeah I know) are reporting that a new stepping for Intels 45nm process is due out in March, offering similar power/performance benefits as the G0 stepping did for the 65nm process. If the mainstream Penryns have been delayed until March anyway then I guess it might be worth waiting another couple of weeks after their release until the processors made with the new stepping hit the shelves?
 
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