Comments on: Report: More competitive processors due from AMD

AMD will bring out processors by early next year that appear to be much more competitive with Intel offerings.

[pithenumber]

Finally AMD has a 45nm chip.

[The1egend]

45nm and a thermal envelope of 125watts? I may be wrong on this, but a quick look on Newegg has the E8600 at 65w, and the Q9650 at 95w. To me 125w seems high. I do understand that (also from the quick look on newegg) the Phenom 9950 currently has a TDP of 140w. So this would be an improvement of TDP and clock speed. Now, I like AMD because they forced change in the market, but if this is what they call 'competitive' they have missed the mark by a few months. In the first quarter of 2009, Intel will have the first i7's coming out, forcing Duo and Quad prices down, meaning that these new chips better be cheap.

[limefan913]

Hopefully AMD can keep momentum after these chips. After the Athlon X2 they just sort of stopped. Phenom was a botched launch at best and rather disappointing.

All that being said, I'm still putting AMD CPUs into just about every computer I build. Intel would have to offer something truly spectacular before I switched back to them as my CPU of choice.