I wonder if Ray Kurzweil ever gets tired of being right.

The Intel and AMD fanboys both understand very little about the CPU business... or business in general. Personally, I have tended until my last build to use AMD, though a Core 2 Quad is in my current machine (reasonably priced and better than phenom, for only $60 more... yeah, I'll take that)

However, all the juvenile comments and posturing is getting a little tiring on these comment posts... Seriously, if you want to act like aspergered out flame warriors, at least take a couple of business classes.

Most of the market is in the middle. The vast majority of the market is in the middle. High end workstations and gaming pc's make up less than 1% of the processor market. Both companies having higher end processors is a pure r&d move. They need the powerful models to be able to scale them down and make them fit the mid range as the technology improves.

We've been goin 45nm Intel lately largely due to power drain concerns, but I can see AMD coming back and giving some good competition. I think that a large amount of their current problems may well be exacerbated when Intel gets rid of the antiquated FSB in the next gen processors, but everything really depends.

So, to sum up, posts like 'AMD is done for' and 'Intel are monopolizts!!' (intentional misspelling) don't add anything to the conversation. Go home and take your meds.

I find it interesting that they use porn stars for their models ;)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2005/06/24/notes062405.DTL

But, unlike a mac pro, it can actually play real video games ;)

Me wants the precious...

Agreed completely. We've seen the current paradigm for years, and I highly doubt it'll disappear even in our lifetimes. (note that I'm actually a semi-Kurzweilian type of tech & science evangelist as well). First you build something relatively large, but powerful. It is used in correspondingly large machines. Then, that technology is shrunk a bit, and it ends up in laptops a bit later. Then, in mobile devices after that. We're already seeing smart cards (whose whole device is the size of a smashed rice grain) with the power of an IBM-XT.

We shouldn't fear miniaturization, because in the near term, our pc's will still be scores, if not hundreds, of times more powerful than most mobile devices.

Imagine the 'GeForce 10800 GX4', 16GB DDR4, a 512GB Solid State drive, and an 8 core 32nm prorcessor ;)

Of course it won't.

Flying, yay. Candy mountain!

Fly me away!

Happy birthday!