14 DAY TRIAL // AMD is going to respond to the new Intel's strategy with a new Turion. And that is not all. Tom's Hardware has the details.
Now that Intel's next-generation Pentium architecture is confirmed to have fewer look-ahead pipelines instead of more, and will focus on power consumption even at the risk of moderating its performance gains, AMD may have been successful in forcing CPU market leader Intel into a long-term strategic U-turn.
But after having challenged Intel on Tuesday to a "dual-core duel" in the open market, AMD may be finding itself today ironically blindsided by Intel's strategy to reveal less about its future dual-core and multicore architectures than was anticipated. With little information to go on from Intel, AMD found itself this week with little information to shoot down. In what appeared to be a carefully prepared briefing for Tom's Hardware Guide and other journalists yesterday at a suite outside of Intel's Fall Developers' Forum in San Francisco, AMD ended up revealing very little, other than to confirm the news that had been leaked on Tuesday, that the company would be releasing a dual-core Turion 64 mobile processor with DDR2 memory support, sometime during the first half of next year.
As for corporate headquarters, AMD's product manager for the server and workstations group, Brent Kirby, was left to take aim at a pre-existing Intel architectural vulnerability, in AMD's viewpoint: Intel's continued reliance upon front-side bus architecture, from now into the future.