Quote Originally Posted by justthefax View Post
Nehalem is basically a great validation of AMD's architectural choices -- on-die memory controller, Hypertransport, small L2, big L3, monolithic quadcore etc. People can argue on the details, whether inclusive or exclusive cache hierarchies are more effective etc, but the gist is the same.
I'd say Intel would still go that route with Nehalem even if AMD would not have done all that in Barcelona. Although I don't think Intel would really try to be as competitive as they are doing now without AMD, even though AMD is not crushing Intel at the moment. In such low competition scenario though, a Nehalem like chip could show up a lot later and that is not good either.

BTW in 2 years from now, what kind of role will Itanium have in the market place?

On Deneb, is there any word on pricing yet? What about RD890? I haven't heard anything of that chip set for a while and it even seems to be delayed to halfway through 2009.