Time for AMD to Take Their Ball and Go Home
Poor AMD. Two years ago, Intel's Core architecture was unveiled and it absolutely decimated AMD's offerings. They've been playing catch-up ever since. Though their latest release, Phenom, didn't go as smoothly as possible, they at least have a somewhat competitive offering for mid-range and low-end builds. Unfortunately, most users would still be better off going with an Intel branded processor. It seems that AMD's only hope would be for Intel to severely drop the ball with its new architecture, Nehalem, giving AMD time to release their own new architecture and become competitive.
Unfortunately for AMD, it appears that those hopes have been dashed. Intel has done it again if the latest numbers coming in from Computex in Taipei are any indicator. Anandtech got there hands on two samples, and their site is currently being hammered by all of the benchmark-hungry nerds. Long story short: Nehalem is 20-40% faster than Intel's current architecture at the same clock speeds.
Time to pack up and head home, AMD. 2009 is going to be 2007 all over again, with consumers being foolish to buy anything running on AMD processors. Hit the jump for more details.
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