Conroe Delayed

Intel's delay on their Conroe processors is, I'm sure, giving AMD a little more breathing room. The Intel Conroe processor will be quite a formidable processor. It currently ties with AMD's FX-series processors in game-play; which in turn means it's single-threading process is significantly improved. Another aspect of the processor is it's dual-core architecture and massive L2 cache. The price-tag on Conroe processors is also expected to be very low. Unless AMD gets it's act in gear, Intel may become equal with AMD for the rest of this year, if not most of next year.

AMD has one month to develop a superior flag-ship processor; can they do it?

Reverse Hyper-Threading

AMD's Hyper-Transport technology essentially allows you to gain more performance from all of your system hardware through the use of very fast front-side bus. This technology has been implemented into AMD's Athlon 64 line for 3 years now. Intel's Hyper-Threading technology was one of the only ways they could compete with AMD's Hyper-Transport. Hyper-Transport essentially allows you to gain more performance from all your programs on multiple threads. The reason AMD's systems run games so well is because they're all single-threaded. Now it seems AMD has come up with their own way of improving performance on multi-threaded programs.

Will Intel counter AMD's improvements with a new technology this year?

500 Ghz

IBM & Georgia Tech have gotten together and created a single 200mm platter. What makes this platter so special is how insane the accumulated speed is. They were able to maintain a constant speed of 500 Ghz at a temperature of 4.5 degrees Kelvin. Yeah, considering how 0 degrees Kelvin is absolute zero, I'd have to say that the clock speed is not only a record, but a feat of technology as well. Cryogenically cooling a piece of hardware can't be easy.

With clock speeds of 500 Ghz, why don't we use platters instead of single or dual-core processors?

Intel Losing Money

Over the past three years AMD has held a firm grip above Intel's price and performance. Now that Dell and Levano PC are creating computers with AMD's processors that grip will continue to strengthen. Intel's newest tactic is to radically lower it's prices in hopes that AMD will not be able to compete. It appears as though the recent price cuts of from both Intel and AMD have resulted in even more AMD processors being sold. Intel may have delayed a promising technology too long, and they will pay dearly for it.

Will Intel's Conroe Processors be released in time to save the company's integrity?