AMD challanges validity of Intel Dual Core
 

AMD Exec, states Intel's definition and manufacturing process do not equate to "true" dual core chip.

Intel’s dual-core platform consists of two separate cores in individual dies packaged together using multi-chip packaging in a single chip, which is not a true dual-core solution, according to Henri Richard
DigiTimes

Another scenario -

One egg with two sperms = twins = AMD dual core
Two eggs with two sperms = Twins = Intel dual core

but who'll care ? You get 2 cores for not so much money, so most people won't even matter if it are 2 different cores or 1 big core (most people won't even know this)

Technology does ;), and so do eggs and sperms.

Isn't performnce the all important factor?

If AMD dual cores are better than Intel's (which seems they are), then that's all I need to know.

yeah, who cares if they are 3x as expensive :rolleyes:

I didn't mean in terms of overall purchase value.

I meant in terms of the AMD-Intel inner competition.

personally , I'm not gonna bother with Dual core until ALL the applications I use have adapted for dual cores.

I'm not a fan of paying lots of $$$
but you know if Intel had the better performer, they would charge more $$$. Heck even now the 800 series dual core EE is more $$$ than the top AMD dual core, and the top AMD dual core destroys the 800 series cpu(with it's logical 4 cores) in about 90+% of benches I have seen.

Once AMD can push production up, be assured prices will fall where the masses can purchase. Right now regular Intel dual cores are a joke, at least to me, nothing your really not already getting with HT with less heat and $$$ IMO. I'm sure you can find one or two applications where a true dual core P4 will win over a HT P4, but for day to day end user stuff, even encoding etc... I don't think it will be worth the heat production and power consumption. These are just my personal feelings based on my own assumptions though so I could be way off.

http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/show...threadid=15368

Stated here regarding extra cooling cost with Intel Dual core + new chipet = more total investment to own Intel Dual core.

I go with whatever works better for the application, however; JNAV really got me interested in AMD again and Van Smith of Vans Hardware also tuaght me a lot. This article and the articles preceding it mentioned in the article, gtives a clear and concise explanation of the Intel debacle known as Prescott and their marketing driven redundant engineering.

I once compared Intel to the Detroit Automobile industry of the 1970's which became complacent believing they had a monopoloy on auto sales. Along came the Gas crisis (like the one were having now which is why were headed toward smaller cars again) and they were basically crushed. Only recently have they begun to get their heads above water, and that's because of Government bail-outs (and then we tax memory because China helped their Fab owners) America reverted back to Big Bertha's gas-sucking polluting Cadalic Escalade run over your neighbor, off-road (although the only time the auto will see off road action is when it's parked in your driveway "off-the-road") genre.

You can say that again!

I think it must rather embarrasing to be an American when you know that your country alone is responsible for at least 25% of the world's greenhouse gasses and at the same time the only one (of importance) not willing to sign the Kioto treaty!

They are going to :badair: us to death!

Instead of going hydrogen Fuel Cell they're going "SUV your children to school"!

I guess it's too much hussle to fill up your tank more often. Yeah, we might as well kill the environment.

They're :mad: I tell ya:chop:

Hmmmm, that raving on my part, might have been just a wee bit off topic:rolleyes:

I apologise.

well, the intel dual core cpu's might be lower in cost, but you do have to buy a whole new motherboard for it, which you don't have to for an amd if you already have a socket 939 one. so that kinda makes price even, but not performance, AMD's dual core kicks intel's in nearly every bench i have seen.