Intel goes for dual-core
p2pnet.net News:- Intel will offer dual core ‘two-in-one’ microprocessors across all product lines starting next year.
And by 2006, most chips sold for desktop and notebook PCs, as well as server computers, will be using dual-core or multicore microprocessors architecture, says Intel president and ceo Paul Otellini, quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle here.
Otellini was the keynote speaker at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco.
Chipzilla says it’s expecting its revenues for the three-month period ending September 30 to be lower than expected, and, "The company over-promised and under-delivered for the third quarter," analyst Gus Richard stated recently.
"We had some fumbles," Otellini says in ther Chronicle story, "referring to the recent missteps, which include delaying the release of a 4-GHz version of Pentium 4 from the end of this year to early next year."
To remedy the problems, he said, Intel is focusing on making sure different divisions are better coordinated and doing a better job of delivering products on schedule. "The result of that is to back off a bit (on projects) and be more predictable" with product deliveries to customers, Otellini is quoted as saying.
The Chronicle story points out that dual-core microprocessors aren’t new – "IBM and Sun Microsystems already have chips with more than one core for large server computers" – and that Otellini "bristled when he was asked after his keynote address whether Intel is falling behind its competitors, especially AMD".
He said it wasn’t a race. Rather, it’s "a sea change in computing. I’m very happy to see that our primary competitor is also embracing this move. It shows we’ve picked the right move."
September 8th, 2004 at 9:58 pm
The key point in this story is that by the timetable intel has reported, it will be many months behind amd in releasing dual-core processors. So for months the only choice desktop users will have for dual-core cpu’s will be amd. Even after intel releases the new dual core cpu’s they are likely to run far hotter and consume more power than the existing amd chips. To compete they would need to make dramatic improvements to their cpu’s, which if recent history is any indication they won’t.
Also many of the other news sites reports seem somewhat biased against amd and tend to needlessly put the company down.
I’d like to point out that amd currently makes the best desktop cpu’s. Maybe intel isn’t doing so well because of superior competition and not because of trends in the consumer market. The fact they recently blamed their troubles on those supposed trends just points out that they are now the number two chipmaker behind amd. The irresponsible report brought the entire chip sector down with them, which shouldn’t have happened. In fact amd’s stock should have been up because of such bad news from its competitor.
As far as I can tell amd’s stock is way undervalued, due to reporters and market analysts biased unfounded opinions.
September 9th, 2004 at 3:18 am
“It isn’t a race” translates to: “We are losing, badly with our overly long pipleline and punishing out of order execution problems. We hope to steal more of AMD64 code to incorporate into our chips, so we can try to match their skills and eventually pummel them with better marketing. We think guys in green suits will work.”
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