Lord_Majestic - 8:15 pm on Jan 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

Gamers, servers, etc, are all jumping to Optereron or other amd 64 bit options, AMD won another round, they won the XP 1600 - 2500 round too, but just not as convincingly.

AMD won to live another day, but its not victory in a sense they are taking over Intel -- just look at market capitalisations to see what market really thinks about them.

Did AMD do a good job with x64? Too right! But in a grand scale of things they are constantly fighting for their survival, and they would have been better off not getting questionable win that made Intel lose its face and admit they were wrong, since now AMD only got time base competitive advantage that is dissapearing every day. I like AMD, but they will never take over Intel because in this game their job is to have 2nd place (Intel would not want them to go bust).