This seems more like you are trying to make AMD look like a hero and Intel a villain.
Why is it evil to NOT create a product that is a complete waist of resources?
Why is it heroic if you do?
Intel has focused their energies on creating a product consumers need. Rather than giving them useless cores, they gave you faster cores.
AMD isn't giving you more cores. They are creating more cores in an attempt to separate themselves from Intel in the only way they can. They failed to keep up in performance, so they are attempting to present users with something they think they need. If they could compete with Intel in straight performance, they probably wouldn't be selling 8 core chips.
The other possible reason AMD would push for more cores is simply to try and get the dev's to use more cores. Of course this is also not some saintly gesture. They just want their CPU's to compete in the only way they know how to get them to compete.
Intel is just giving us what we want and not things we don't want or need.
Sorry to go off-topic...
...but Intel was fined with 1 billion for using unfair monopolistic power. And this is just one example. No one knows the real impact and true loss for AMD and it's quite hard to calculate. Most importantly, it's really hard to calculate the future impact that this had on AMD, their R&D costs along with their software support and innovation. Like 64bit.
Quote :"Intel is just giving us what we want and not things we don't want or need"
Really? I'm pretty sure Intel doesn't care what you or we want as individuals. Nor as a group for that matter.
I want fast and cheap CPU's. Do I get them? No! Intel gives you what they have advantage in and what they have planned(researched) for years in advance.
For quite sometime now we all listen how we need greater parallelism...what do you expect AMD to do? It's unfortunate that this didn't happen erally but you can also speculate on that (Intel again)
Will not go further, even though I really want to. One last off-topic bit...I really wish that there is a way for everybody to see what the future will be without AMD (or whatever company there is) in the CPU and GPU market.
It's not the hardware that holds AMD back. Not at all. It's the friggi' software.
Mantle and all of the HSA push may be the solution.