Analyst Denounces Intel’s First Quad-Core Chip
 

While Intel Corp. may beat its rival Advanced Micro Devices in terms of time-to-market with its quad-core processors, such chips will not offer customers absolutely highest performance possible due to their design, according to claims made by Insight 64 analyst Nathan Brookwood.

Analyst, specially stock analysts are worst than noise from a dozen high speed delta fans sitting around you = they make a lot of useless noise. Otherwise, they are the super rich people for their accurate "predictions".

how can they gauge performance if the CPU is not out yet? Weird analysis