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Posted on 8 Feb 2008 at 12:19

The good news is that, after the debacle and public shaming of AMD over Barcelona, the company clearly doesn't want anything similar to happen again. One of the key things it needs is more manufacturing clout, and with AMD teaming up with other players in the semiconductor industry to develop 32nm parts, the transition to 32nm could get a boost. Like Intel, AMD's future plans revolve to a large extent around multicored heterogeneous processors - in others words, processors with multiple cores specifically tailored for different tasks. This will be completely new ground and an opportunity for good basic engineering to trump the ultra-hi-tech fabrication that, for the moment, AMD simply can't match.

For now, though, it's pretty much a whitewash. Intel's dominance is total in every area: value for money, performance per watt and all-out speed.

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Author: David Fearon