Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
Maybe not in the very begining, but AMD definetly tries to compete with Intel from a performance standpoint...

The Athlon was the first CPU to break the 1Ghz barrier, and the A64 actually handed P4's their lunch before C2D came out.

It may not happen this round, but there are some pretty bright engineers at AMD...

What ever happened to Cyrix anyway....
Now will be the first native octa-core and new "modul" design. It will be about die size and performance efectivity.