Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Tech Link (Technology): Xeon Woodcrest Preys On Opteron

THG has a quite a mouthful of write-up regarding Woodcrest's performance. They benchmarked it against the competition (fastest CPU from A*) and the results, are, great. I can already imagine how AMDroids will complain about the difference in clock speed, heck, I don't have time to bash them about it now.

Today marks a turning point for Intel. Despite of good overall profit and great headlines on advances in manufacturing, the firm has had to suffer from tremendous criticizm over the last 18 months. When compared to AMD processors, the Pentium and Xeon lines were regularly given a beating and are well known for their disproportional energy hunger. It was a matter of time until these drawbacks had to reflect on market shares and as this happened, stockholders certainly weren't leaping for joy. Intel had to leap ahead, quickly.


Source:THG

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