You know, I was going to spend some time on here yapping about how Intel has been riding on the shoulders of AMD for quite some time, made ever more clear with the new Intel Core i7 chip they’ve just put on the market. Of course we all knew it was coming for some time, but that’s not the point. Then when I was thinking about it more, I realized that we all walk on the shoulders of genius ever day. Even AMD ran off of the shoulders of Intel for a quite a while when they first got started. So I guess it is only fair to say now that Intel is riding off of AMD’s developmental skills. Yeah, we’re seeing a huge lack of creativity from Intel’s corner, but a lot of good that has been doing them anyways right? The new i7 chip that has stolen more of AMD’s designs than any other previous chip has failed to surpass even Intel’s own processors strength… ironic isn’t it?
I now am really waiting on the AMD Fusion platform. Apparently it’s been pushed back until 2011, so I’ll probably have to get a quad core in between now and then to keep my system running like it should. Or well the first real upgrade I’m going for is a RAID 5EE setup, so that first, and then by that time I might be able to get an affordable 6 core processor to work with… which will really keep me entertained until Fusion comes out. Once Fusion is out I won’t be jumping straight on that bandwagon either, it’ll take a few years of it being out for it to both mature, and also drop in price before I get right on board.
