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Advanced Micro: Despite Meeting, The Wait for Details Continues

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 Hypertransport, NUMA, the crossbar switch, and monolithic quad-core. With those features in place, Intel will steal the 2P and 4P 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.