Intel Fights Back Against AMD

[Winga]

Intel claims their Woodcrest server chip will give an 80 percent improvement in performance and a 35 per cent reduction in power.

Admitting that Intel has been under tremendous competitive pressure, chief tech officer, Justin Rattner says it's heading back, with the focus on energy efficiency.
Core microarchitecture, said Rattner, includes energy efficient performance for desktops, notebooks and for servers. He said Intel is a year ahead of the competition and in the second half will move to 45 nanometres.

Intel has widened the pipeline so it can put four stages in a single clock, and will use a 14-stage pipeline. It has something called Macrofusion which lets Intel combine two instructions in a single jump. The chip-maker is introducing 128 bit SSE in a single cycle.
Source: The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=30111)

128 bit processor...did i read that right...maybe ill move to intel, but i highly doubt good ol' amd is sitting on their hands in the R&D department.

what does 4 stages in a single clock mean though?

[GrayFox]

128 bit processor...did i read that right...maybe ill move to intel, but i highly doubt good ol' amd is sitting on their hands in the R&D department.

what does 4 stages in a single clock mean though?

No they mean a 128bit wide sse operating interface (AMD has this in there athlon 64, stempron, athlon X2 and opteron cpus).

[danball1976]

But, these new Intel CPUs will probably run insanely hot.

[Enverex]

Well they did say 35% reduction in power, so they should run cooler, not hotter.

[Thrax]

80% increase in performance eh?

AMD could say this, and I would call it horse **** all the same.