So the question now is, is AMD bouncing back, or are they slipping further? AMD just announced that Fusion won’t be coming out later this year, but rather plans to launch it in 2011 when they hit 45nm for their processors… Of course this means that Fusion will be a murderous processor when it comes out as GPU technology will be far advanced by this time, and higher clock speeds on the tri-core processor will be higher. Problem with this situation is that this is just the item that AMD needs to start nailing down Intel again…
They’ve never successfully taken the market from Intel, because people are stupid, and even though they held the performance crown for years Intel still outsold them. Well now, Intel’s new i7 chip isn’t all what they had hoped it would be, so AMD can catch up performance wise again, let’s just hope it’s enough to surpass Intel, and hold that lead until Fusion comes out… because Fusion most certainly will be more powerful than anything Intel has to muster up… and it will be another three to five years before Intel copies them, and at that it will be much like the i7 in that it won’t be up to par performance wise yet. Of course Intel will just continue to throw money at it and eventually pass up AMD again, at which point AMD will have to innovate more, and Intel will have to copy more… it’s a vicious cycle… but one day AMD will surpass Intel in sales, and that day will be a good day.
