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    Intel Narrows Forecast

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by nathanhuth, Dec 8, 2005.

  1. nathanhuth

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    Thanks for posting this. :)

    Looks like the reason for the increase in competition is the introduction of the Turion processor, and the AMD Opteron processor for servers, which are for servers - I've read that they are signifigantly faster than the Xeon in many apps.
     
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    AMD also continues to seem to beat Intel getting low-end processors in these cheap $500 laptops from acer, hp and the like (witness the $378 Wal Mart laptop, it was an AMD).

    Next quarter should be interesting, dual-core Pentium processors will start shipping in January and the performance gap between Pentium M chips and Turion chips will increase (in favor of Intel). I'm not sure when AMD is going to respond with a faster Turion.
     
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    I heard sometime in the second half of '06. AMD does not have 65nm capable-facilities yet on which to manufacture the new CPU's...
     
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    Also, the Sager 9750 - Hypersonic and Voodoo too. It's the same machine, just rebadged. A Clevo D900T I believe. ;)
     
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    Yep, that Clevo D900T has been up for pre-order at all the botique places. Most were honest about it and said that they'd ship 'em whenever Clevo started sending them the chassis, but there was this odd message at WidowPC... They claimed they were waiting on the AMD X2 chips! Either Clevo shipped all the chassis they built to Widow, or they were lying their butts off. "Waiting on the processors" when every online retailer had them, my local store had them, and even Dell had them for sale! Dell, Intel's wife!
     
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