CHIP GIANT Intel is certainly becoming more confident in bringing specialist computing for enthusiasts to the market.
When its "Canterwood" chipset comes out with an Intel own board ? formerly codenamed Bonanza ? in the second quarter, it will be specifically aimed at the gaming/enthusiast market, with a price tag to match and with revved up "turbo" DDR-400 memory, now called PAT (performance acceleration technology).

AMD, on the other hand, appears to be ready to cede some of this enthusiast market to Intel ? its Clawhammer/Athlon64 won't come out until September, and that's only if Microsoft's X86-64 OS is on time, while it looks like it's trudging through the OEM snow persuading big boys like Dell, IBM, HP and others to take up its Opteron platform.

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