At the end of the day, business tactics always LOSE to better technology, I HOPE

Intel released their own Dual-Core chip a couple of weeks back. The chip has been benchmarked by GamePC, as reported in Slashdot today. AMD's Opteron Dual Core indeed "thrashed" Intel's new chip in the benchmarks, on I think every single criterion.

Obviously this was a despirate move by Intel to have it's own competition with AMD, and was clearly motivated by business tactics. I hope that the stock prices reflect the vast difference in technology.

FYI: the guy that made Pentium is the cheif techonologist for AMD, I believe. He left after he made the Pentium, and Intel hasn't made any really drastic changes to its architecture since. AMD, on the other hand, has taken the x86 platform to a new height with Hyper Transport technology.

Again, I hope that the vast difference in technology is reflected both in the financial markets, as well as the PC market, in that the larger OEMs like IBM, DELL, and, hey, maybe even Apple, start looking toward the AMD chips.