[RUMOR] Industry source: Lynnfield hard to overclock

[T_Flight]

There is a very staunch critic of AMD (www.overclockers.com) which sometimes pushes to the edge, but every once and a while he makes a decent point... and one point I think fits the bill is this one:

http://www.overclockers.com/index.ph...rs&Itemid=4263

He argues that Intel is working toward putting a more definitive divide between their luxury line CPUs and the more common man/retail CPUs ... this may not be too far from the truth. The 3-channel Bloomfield parts may be the retail, 'premium' line he talks about while the more integrated and less customizable line are the Dell, HP, Gateway specials.

I do not like the idea, but looking at it from a different perspective it is easy to see why ... and it results from a desire to milk more money -- i.e. charge 200-1000 for premium, OCable CPUs, and 100-200 for non OCable CPUs ... that way, people are not tempted to purchase a low end CPU to get high end performance. .... cheesy, stinks, but it looks like it is heading that direction if Ed (oveclockers.com) is correct.

It's smart buisness. It's made them money, and they then put that money into R&D to keep the performance edge, and continually innovate new products. The good part for us is their buisness model is very smart, and shows security. Nobody has to worry whether Intel will be around.

Intel has ran their buisness very intelligently. They know you have to make money to survive, and to have the money needed for R&D. That's the thing I like most about Intel is that they have some highly intelligent people running things, and make smart moves.

They are giving each market segment what they want, and they are gonna grow and prosper. It's almost hard to believe that a Company that is such a giant could grow anymore than they already have, but the smart moves and forward thinking just keeps flowing there.

Who could ask for anything more? Each market segment has products that are tailor made for them. You sure can't get that anywhere else. They have successfully targeted every sub-market out there and fine tuned their line perfectly. Heck depending on what happens in this election I may have to bring back some of the money I have locked down offshore and get back into the market again. Things are looking up up up for this company. They have their ass wired tight.