[RayChuang88]

Intel won back its lead when they released the Conroe-core Core 2 Duo CPU's that ran way cooler and faster than its AMD counterparts. The latest Intel CPU's have built upon the Conroe CPU core, the first true "designed from scratch" core since the Pentium Pro CPU (people forget the Pentium II to Pentium 4 and Celeron CPU's were essentially derivatives of the Pentium Pro core).

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Yep. And with the current Penryn die-shrink (the “tick” in Intel’s tick-tock plan) and the upcoming radically redesigned Nehalem CPU (the “tock”), I think AMD is in a world of hurt.

Phenom isn’t phenomenal.