Re: [Rumor] AMD's 45nm 'Deneb' core to launch at 4.4GHz?

If you go back to the days of 386 you'll see Intel was forced to go into that contract. It was a long drawn out thing in the courts. Intel would be a sorry SOB if it didn't renegotiate. It would be like turning down free money. Whatever deal AMD has with intel on the 64bit side of things is already done. I don't know the particulars of course but it is completely a different situation.

BTW it was Intel that forced AMD to go from 16bit to 32bit cpu's. It was almost the same situation where you had intel saying there is no reason to go to 64bit when the os's were only 32bit, except it was AMD saying there's no need to go to 32 bit. I believe windows 3.1 was 16bit then and win95 was far off.

It's a tug of war but when people get all excited about AMD becoming the best seller (that's been a long time) they need to realize AMD is setup to always be the under dog. Having ATI under its belt changes things money wise but as far as AMD moving the amount of cpu's that intel does, I don't see it happening ever unless a move is made away from X86.

BTW I'm an AMD fan boy all the way. I was going to see what the next AMD CPU's looked like before I built my next system but I had my mind set on a Quad core intel. Now I'm not so sure. I'm a bigger FPS fan boy than I am an AMD.