Et Tu Yorkfield?

Et Tu Yorkfield?

Wednesday, December 19, 2007 - by Chad Weirick
We recently reported that Intel may postponing the release of their X48 chipset by a month or two, and now it looks like they may be doing the same with their 45 nm “Yorkfield” quad-core CPUs.  While the X48 delay is allegedly to make motherboard manufacturers happy, the delay of the CPUs seems to stem from AMD's Phenom not being available at clock speeds as high as many in the industry were speculating.

“Intel has already notified its partners that it will push back the launch of the three CPUs to February or March next year, depending on AMD's schedule for triple-core and the upcoming Phenom CPUs.

Launching the CPUs now will not benefit Intel much in its battle with AMD, while they could cause damage to Intel's 65nm quad-core CPUs, therefore the company has decided it is in no rush to release new products until AMD is able to present more of a threat.”

It seems that even hard-core Intel enthusiasts are now being directly impacted by the Phenom, but not in the way they probably imagined.  All we need now is for AMD to start performing like they were two years ago again.
Via: DigiTimes | News Archive | Tags: Yorkfield
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By on Dec 19, 2007

I feel bad for AMD it's funny how fast things change within 2 years. With that said I hate that Intel has to delay a product launch becuse they know they will get sued for Monopolizing. I was waiting for x48.

By ice91785 on Dec 20, 2007

On that same token however, AMD is getting a smidgen of a break here....gives them a little bit of time to attempt to catch up with Intel, albeit only a little bit.

If anything it'll make the market more competitive eventually and save us (consumers) some dollar-inos $$$$ -- we just now have to be patient and wait for the product to catch up with the idea (from AMD)

By jtm55 on Dec 20, 2007

 Hi All,

It's definitely in our best interest that AMD become more competitive so that Intel doesn't start charging astronomical prices for their products. 

By Dave_HH on Dec 20, 2007

Couldn't agree more JT...

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