Comments on: AMD's dual-core Opteron due this month

Chips that combine dual processing engines on a single slice of silicon will arrive months early, CNET News.com has learned.

[NWLB]

Won't outsell them, but will annoy them.

AMD might not outsell Intel, but the lower price will put pressure on their counterpart. Intel can?t be happy about AMD pricing any duel core the same as a single core chip, it undercuts what they must have hoped would be a boost to their bottom line.

But then Intel hasn?t held the imitative for several years.

[Tex Murphy PI]

Pls check your facts before posting

Facts you might want to check again:

1) Intel has priced their Dual core chips on par with their single-core chips. AMD is just following Intel's lead on the pricing aspect.

2) AMD has done such a good job with Athlon, that the price disparity between Intel and AMD has pretty much evaporated at this point - because the demand for those chips are just that high! So I don't think AMD "keeping" Intel's price down - because if they did, the would be releasing these chips at discount - which they aren't.

If you have to give AMD credit, give them credit for:
1) Pushing the adoption of 64bit X86 computing mainstream - ahead of Intel's artificially slow schedule.
2) Releasing a truly integrated dual-processor core ahead of Intel. Intel's part is really two cores packaged as one - though a more integrated one is coming out soon as well.

What remains to be seen is if AMD can match Intel's level of discipline in manufacturing and quality control. AMD has a good track record of covering up manufacturing, packaging and QA gaffe's in the past.

Either way, if you should give AMD credit, give them credit where it's due - rather than writing a boring, re-treaded fan-boy post. This is a no-nonesense tech forum.

[System Tyrant]

AMDer

Not that I have any problems with Intel, but it amazes me that people still think Intel is king of the hill.

I was talking to a computer store owner about Intel and AMD and he still clings to the idea that AMD is slower, hotter, and less reliable than Intel. Of course I don't buy computers from him, but it just amazes me that someone who sell computers still thinks that way. AMD is as reliable, if not more than, as Intel. Comparing the P4 to Athlon 64, AMD runs cooler (although there is some room for argument there). As far as speed goes, we all know AMD is kickin' butt and taking names. And you can't beat the price.

To be fair though, when Intel desides to move the Mobile Pentiums into the desktop market full blast, I think we are really going to see some fierce competition between AMD and Intel. By that I mean the previous comparison probably won't hold any water at all. It will be a more apples to apples comparison.

However compititon is good. So I say keep up the good work to AMD, Intel, IBM, VIA, and Transmeta. Someday we may have lots of viable choice in hardware and software.