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AMD's New Roadmap: Can It Find the Way?

AMD better get moving. Intel is bent on copying everything AMD did and using it to slaughter AMD. Intel is preparing Nehalem by copying Opteron features like the crossbar switch, Hypertransport, monolithic quad-core, and the NUMA design. With those features, Intel will steal the 4 socket server business away from AMD. If I were part of AMD management, I would have AMD copy pieces of Intel's Core 2 microarchitecture, like macro ops fusion and memory disambiguation. And increase clock speed. Fight fire with fire! Yeah, well, of course it won't happen. With clueless Hector around the company is headed to the grave.