Dell claims Intel will lead AMD in 2006
 

THE FOUNDER of Dell mounted a spirited defence of Intel processors at a Gartner conference today, Infoworld reports.



The newspaper said that Michael Dell reckons that Intel dual core processors will beat AMD in the performance stakes next year.

Which is a bit curious, because Dell launched a Paxville Xeon processor which it said was a performance champion just a little while ago. Michael Dell reckons that Intel will be "supercompetive" in spring next year. Isn't it now?

Dell's Dell is quoted as saying that Intel's move to a 65 nanometre technology will give it the edge over AMD dual core processors on the server side. Basically, if you can make smaller chips on bigger wafers it means you can make more and probably sell them for less. So there's probably yet another price war looming.

AMD opened a factory extension in Dresden last week which will produce 65 nanometre processors during 2006 and the dual headed question of price and performance will rear its ugly head not long after Janus, the Roman two headed god wakes up on January 1st.

AMD has started qualifying its 65 nanometre process technology but it's likely to only start churning out chips in the first quarter, at the earliest. The Infoworld article doesn't report whether anyone asked Mikey Dell about Apple. Or Vista.

The INQuirer

Not surprised. I'm not at all impressed with my AMD 64 X2 4200 cpu vs my Intel 2.8 GHz P4 on ASUS boards