[NetBeck]

This reminds me of AMD's launch of the 1.4GHz Athlon Thunderbird. People were shocked that benchmarks proved AMD dethroned Intel.

>The Athlon 1.4GHz is far and away the fastest PC processor you can buy. Well, OK, it's not that much faster than the 1.33GHz Athlon, but it's a heap faster than Intel's 1.7GHz Pentium 4. Through a range of tests measuring a variety of applications and abilities, every one of our Athlons from 1.2GHz to 1.4GHz beat out the Pentium 4 with regularity."[1]

[1] https://techreport.com/review/2523/amd-athlon-1-4ghz-process...

[ksec]

And history repeating again. It was a perfect Storm, Pentium 4 requires Rambus DRAM that no one wants and was expensive. The later Pentium 4 switched back to DDR but it was slower, which Pentium 4 in itself was already quite slow / not much of an improvement. Then AMD made Athlon Thunderbird, and later AMD 64.

It is happening again, Intel has been sitting on 14nm for 5 years, and now with many security issues and they won't be able to react with 10nm until early next year, and even the 10nm CPU will likely not have a hardware fix. Last time this happen Intel started a price war and FUD against AMD.

The timeline somehow always synced when AMD executed their plan to perfection and Intel somehow messes up at the same time. And then Intel woke up, last time it was Pat Gelsinger who saved them ( And later forced out of Intel ), and then somehow AMD make some missteps. This time Intel got Jim Keller, I hope Dr Lisa Su wont repeat the same mistake again.

[unicornfinder]

Not to mention there's a fair bit of evidence suggesting that Intel won't even have 10nm ready next year either.

[djsumdog]

You could also run dual AthlonXPs in SMP motherboards (even though it was only the AthlonMPs that were officially supported).