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Intel, AMD: Still Room to Fall Further?

How has AMD lost gorund because the "launch" of an Intel 8-core? Where is it, its not here yet, and I bet two Shanghai 4 cores will perform better than a single Nehalem 8 core and probably at the same power. Contrary to popular belief, AMD's technology is not far behind, in fact Intel is now cloning AMD's cpus. AMD is already producing 45nm cpus to ship this year still, but Nehalem will likely not be around in systems until 2009 since it requires new platforms, whereas AMD's are all backwards compatable to current motherboards and current servers.