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Rumors Cloud the Intel - Nvidia Turf War

This author is a brainless nitwit. He is just regurgitating the NVDIA hype.

If he toned down he NVDIA hype and presented a full and balanced picture he would be worth reading. He sounds like a "paid schill.

AMD Needs a Multi-Core Killer App

sramana,
You seem to be a victim of the AMD propaganda machine. Specifically you state 'but several agencies did the testing and ultimately gave AMD the thumbs up.". the reality is that the relative performance was a mixed bag, depending on the applications used, AMD lost on performance in most cases. AMD only won in high bandwith,multi-sockete... applications,which is a small subset of the market.The loss in other segments was a major reason in AMD major financial losses for the last 3 quarters.

The reality is that AMD has gained a tiny market share by selling its products at a loss. Its Average Selling price in the High Performance Markets has collapsed, and it is reduced to a "value vendor".

Unfortunately the latest Barcelona chip is not the promised savior. It is losing even more performance benchmarks to Intel's Penryn chip family.

AMD has stubbornly refused to downsize, and the red ink continues to flow with no end in sight. A restructuring is needed, or AMD desperately needs some one to bail them out, someone who can stomach losing $500 million every quarter.