Comments on: Nehalem: Intel's near future gets real

A desktop system based on Intel's upcoming Nehalem processor has been built. Meanwhile, the chipmaker's Nehalem mobile platform gets a name.

[Mr. Dee]

My Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2 GHz HT 32 bit in my Dell Dimension is still chugging along. Hope it will be around even when Windows 7 is out, got 2.6 GBs of RAM in that system with a nVidia 6200 512 MB AGP video card and its working great, would surely love to get my full moneys worth out of it. I have not purchased a new desktop since 2004 and don't plan to. But Intel is definitely on an innovation flood and with each year, you just want invest in a new tricked out system. But I am gonna abstain until they 10 NM.

[annbrown50]

I wonder how much this Nehalem will cost.
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[benjaminstraight]

Good article

[fdunn3]

Nehalem is a funny name for an AMD Opteron Knock-off. This IS the Opteron architecture and one of the reasons it has been kicking Intel in the groin on systems with more the two physical CPUs.

But Intel will win in the end because it has suppressed AMD's market share illegally for more than 5 years now or about the same time that the Opteron and Athlon64 came out.

You remember the Athlon64 don't you? It's the CPU that Intel refused to build because they wanted the 64 bit market exclusively for the Itanium processor but when they saw how the Athlon64 was performing relative to the inefficient Pentium4 Intel changed their minds.

Just like they changed their minds about tying the Pentium4 exclusively to RAMBUS memory, you remember that don't you?

Or how Intel ditched it's best performer the PentiumIII because they knew the P4 architecture was better for streaming media due to it's long pipeline, the same one that made it inefficient so they went back to the PIII core and the rest is history.

Oh the Itanium, you can find it for sale on ebay.

[notgonnatellya]

Fdunn, I used AMD from roughly 2000 until the middle of last year, and while you're probably correct about Intel's unethical practices, they have little to do with why Intel is killing AMD right now.

The core2 architecture has outperformed AMD since day one, and AMD's Quad-Core approach made things even worse.

I want AMD to succeed, but they share most of the blame for their current situation. They got caught flat footed by Core 2, and after 2 years there's still nothing to compete with intel.

As a result, AMD is forced to compete on price and sell CPUs at a loss. Hopefully Fusion will change things, but we've been waiting a long time, and for the desktop, they're not there.

On the plus side, for the first time since they acquired ATI, they've released a solid GPU....just wish it'd been 6 months ago, when I finally relented and went with nVidia.