Originally posted by: myocardia
I think one of the things that people around here are forgetting is that most people on the planet only buy dual-cores, if they can afford one. I personally think that AMD will be fine, if they can make Phenom decent, at least by the end of Q1 08.
What's really hurting them, though, are the Phenom's prices. If the price doesn't come down quite a bit, they may not sell very many Phenom's at all in Q1 & Q2 of next year, no matter how good they might or might not be.
True, but that only buys so much. Remember that Intel is rapidly lowering prices on quads and can squeeze them into the low end pretty quickly with a sub-$200 model, and further with a sub-$150. This will probably happen in the Q1-Q2 timeframe and history has shown that the "core war" is very effective with consumers. Nobody is going to buy an equivalently priced dually and quad, especially at similar clock rates.