Didn't AMD demonstrate a 3 Ghz Phenom quad core a few weeks/months ago? Why in the hell can't they make more of these 3 Ghz Phenoms just like that one?

It's gotta be the 65nm process. AMD needs to just phase out 65nm and start ramping up to 45nm .... FAST. I want to see a big announcement no later than March saying that they have 45nm Phenoms available for sale that are just as good or better than the 45nm Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 chips.

Who cares if the 45nm Phenoms are priced at $1,300+ each? Just get it out there for the deep pocket extreme gamers to play around with. AMD needs to get some good P.R. about its chips or the gamers are going to buy QX9650 chips in droves and forget about AMD. I hear you can overclock the QX9650 to 4 Ghz with air cooling ... no problem. THAT right there is a BIG problem for AMD.

How can AMD compete with 4 Ghz Penryns? Imagine the panic that would set in at AMD if Intel released 45 nm Nehalem chips in Summer 2008! If those Nehalems can overclock up to 4 Ghz like the Penryns, AMD is going to be in bigtime trouble. The benchmarks would be unbelievable for a 4 Ghz Nehalem!

AMD needs to QUICKLY add some high K hafnium into their new Phenom chips, crank up the FSB to 1,333 Mhz+ for DDR3, cram 12 MB of cache in there and get those frequencies UP, UP, UP. Get it to overclock to 4 Ghz like the new QX9650 already can.

I'd love to see AMD shock the world in late 2008 and maybe crank out 32nm Phenoms with even more real estate for cache and other processor improvements. I'm sure it's just a fantasy, but everyone just loves to see the little guy (AMD) take on the big guy (Intel) and beat the hell out them. Getting to 32nm first would sure shock Intel and everyone else.

INTEL'S BOARD of directors approved a 13 percent increase in the quarterly cash dividend to 12.75 cents per share, beginning with the dividend that will be declared in the first quarter of 2008.

The outfit is in an extremely strong position, now and for the future," bragged Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini.

"Intel's cash generating capability allows us to again increase the dividend as a signal in our faith in the future and to reward shareholders," he added

Intel began paying a cash dividend in 1992 and has paid out approximately $8.9 billion to its stockholders over the past 60 quarters.

In the meantime, AMD passed the hat to it's shareholders for donations as Hector Ruiz frantically answered shareholder concerns of why Dirk Myers was wasting millions of dollars to give an interview on an New York city rooftop.

I hope there is not an aggressive price war. A price war is good, but cutthroat will jsut kill AMD basically. I rather have "pay $300 for QCore now and forever for lowend QC" than "let's pay $150 QCore for now and
$500 for future chips when competition is gone.

Wow. 5 quad-core xeon's at the 3.00Ghz range. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse...

By "now" they must mean "not now" as none of the usual spots have these proc's available.

#39 Your reading into something that isn't there. I am only making an observation, and also VIA CPU's are too weak for certain applications I am running.

I am just saying that is how things work, what I would personally do is irrelevant.

Well it was a good thing in my moment of weakness while on newegg last night I didn't purchase that Q6600.

bloody and merciless...thats the way it should be done

but intel is merely showing superior marketing and technological know-how

if intel were to give room, they'll be called weak...if they squashed AMD a bit more than they're doing now they'll be in an anti-trust lawsuit of some kind...i don't know anything can happen when rivalries like this exists

Yeah some 45nm Core 2 action would be nice. Quads are still a couple years from useful for me.

45nm Core 2 mobiles comming soon perhaps? That would be sweet.

More core 2's, please, my old socket 939 system is losing it and I want to hurry up and build.

The ETA column is amusing...what does an ETA of "Now-45 days" mean, exactly? I'm guessing it means "possibly available now, but possibly available in 45 days," which seems to me to mean that you're just taking Intel's word about what's available "now" as opposed to being able to corroborate what's available "now" by some other means. Of course, it also seems rather silly to "estimate" the time of arrival for something that is available "now," as it seems to me that such an "estimation" wouldn't be needed if the product was actually available "now." Some clarification on what's actually shipping now in the channel would be nice, so we could determine whether this announcement has any substance or is just some PR Intel wanted to generate on the eve of AMD's Phenom launch.

45nm Xeons whoop both their 65nm predecessors

Do they? Either I've missed something or SSE4 apps count as 'whooping' now. Most {p} reviews I read showed close to similar performance (~0-5%) except with SSE4 when the increase was dramatic. This is in clock-for-clock terms though and it looks as if 45nm may oc a bit more than 65nm parts.

This move was so obvious.

Intel intends on stealing Barcolena's thunder.

I wouldn't count on S775 Wolfdale and Yorkfield chips to be any cheaper.

Oh yeah, Intel has done it with absurd, nonsensical model schemes.

AMD and Nvidia have absolutely nothing on Intel.

The article's picture is spectacular.

Ugh...this isn't going to be pretty.

let us see some more desktop counter parts on the new die strink ;)....that would eventually hit a serious blow to AMD :(

stoakley!

what's a stoakley?

I can't wait to see this AMD/Intel price war heat up in the next couple of months. If AMD is smart, they shouldn't release any processor over $800 even when they hit 3.0Ghz, including their server chips. They need to use force to get back their market share.