I saw that, ultimately though, if it's slower and we know it's slower it wont make any difference to us guys.
It may however make a difference to the OEM or 'average' PC user who wants the best currently available and those precious weeks could make all the difference.
I recall when a64 had not took off and aXP was at the end of it's life - I jumped ship to Prescott and EE for 5 months and then was back onto a64's when decent 939 boards had been introduced, it pays to be patient during such radical times - I just never have been 8)
The rumour mill suggests that unless AMD introduce more cache as well as the 65nm die shrink into AM2 then Intel will be leading the way from when Conroe is released and throughout 2007. It's also suggested that a new architecture will be required after that. I would assume AMD will hold on to current chip design throughout the life of dual-core though and invest heavily into triple/quad core architectures for 2008.
During 2007 we should see quad core Intel CPU's (there goes the low power low heat advantage
) followed by 45nm CPU's in 2008.
