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>> Oh yeah, and let’s keep in mind that those Intel performance gains are in comparison to the overall poor-performing Pentium D chips.

Intel’s new Core 2 Duo processors have proven to be ~20% faster (or more) than AMD’s fastest. And that was just the E6700 only, not even the X6800. Recently on certain benchmarks have shown that even the E6400 and E6600 can outperform the FX-62 and X2 5000+ (on stock speeds). Thus the drastic 50% price drops from AMD.

Don’t forget about Intel’s Netburst which formed the huge revenues in pre-Conroe era. Intel’s worst year 2005 with 8 BILLION NET profit, majority from ye olde Netburst sales.

In comparison, AMD only managed an measly 290 million NET profit and 2005 was its best year.

Yes, it’s a no brainer, the way the chips are being developed, it is almost obvious that any chip on the market today will be superseded by the next one very soon. I hope you guys are following the company called Tilera, they have already developed 64 core chip and ready to pave the ways for a multi-core era.