How long until the new Intel Platform is outclassed?

[qquizz]

This is the "ying" of a previous thread's "yang".
As I have stated before. Why did it take a year for Intel to catch up to the AMD/Nforce2 Platform? Isn't it safe to concur that actually, Intel is the one on the run? IMO Intel should have stuck with Rambus for its high end platforms. They jumped in too early with it but it started to mature and become more and more viable. Now just as it is catching on, they dump it. Go figure? I hope one of you Intel techies can give me some sort of plausable reason. I emailed Intel and asked them how they intend to get the memory bandwidth without Rambus once they get near the 4GHz range(of course they didnt reply). Also what are they going to do when someone like SIS brings out their chipset that supports the new Rambus modules with modern cpu's, and they get thier @@@ stomped in the performance theater. I hold nothing against Intel but I believe they are going to loose the race to 4.0Ghz with performance to back it up for us tweakers.

 

[floccus]

I think what is hurting Intel in this area is that they are focusing on developing high performance chipsets. Working on the chipset and the cpu puts a little bit of a strain on them, although I will admit they have enough resources that it doens't affect them to a very large degree. AMD I feel has made the smarted decision in not trying to create a technically advanced chipset. Sure they'll create a set for each line, but they leave it up to others to really do the damage. This means that AMD can create a better processor whilst companies such as Via and nVidia vie to create the best chipset.

As for how soon the Springdale/Canterwood get bested... hard to say for me. If you mean by an AMD solution than possibly as soon as Opterons are launched. As for another Intel solution, SiS I believe will come out with something big, and with Via re-entering the fold, I'm waiting to see what happens.

 

[wicktron]

Canterwood isn't besting anything with $200+ mobos

 

[oldfart]

Originally posted by: floccus
I think what is hurting Intel in this area is that they are focusing on developing high performance chipsets. Working on the chipset and the cpu puts a little bit of a strain on them, although I will admit they have enough resources that it doens't affect them to a very large degree. AMD I feel has made the smarted decision in not trying to create a technically advanced chipset. Sure they'll create a set for each line, but they leave it up to others to really do the damage. This means that AMD can create a better processor whilst companies such as Via and nVidia vie to create the best chipset.

As for how soon the Springdale/Canterwood get bested... hard to say for me. If you mean by an AMD solution than possibly as soon as Opterons are launched. As for another Intel solution, SiS I believe will come out with something big, and with Via re-entering the fold, I'm waiting to see what happens.

Wow, it that ever backwards. What has helped Intel is having control over their own chipsets. What has hurt AMD (a lot) is the reliance on on 3rd party chipsets such as VIA. Things are somewhat better now with the nForce chipset as a choice.

One thing that has kept me running Intel is the excellent chipset support. I'm not the only one.

 

[Megatomic]

Wow, I didn't even think of this question when I penned the other thread qquizz. This is very interesting. What would be truly enticing on the AMD side of the fence would be an nForce2 Ultra (coming soon) motherboard with ALL the bells and whistles available to it through the nForce2 chipset. With:

Onboard optical sound output allowing for SoundStorm certification
2x parallel ATA RAID channels onboard
Active/efficient cooling on the SPP/IGP chip
Efficient passive cooling on the MCP2-T chip
Adjustable Vdd
Broad memory compatability
New very highly tweaked/optimized platform drivers for all supported OSes

Were this board for sale today I'd jump on it.