[jaguar]

Which new procs did AMD announce? I'm not aware of any AMD proc coming out before them. HT is nice but it's not like AMD developed it alone and the CSI (Scalable Coherent Interface) delay was the fault of the ill-fated Intel India operation which has now been closed. CSI also has some notable advantages over HT and latency is way, way lower.

In a nearer timeframe Merom and Conroe are shaping up nicely and as it stands AMD has crap all in the mobile arena which is becoming larger and larger. Intel still has 80% of the market. AMD has done well to get where they are but I expect it's going to be neck and neck on peformance over the next couple of years.

Put it another way, noone can deliver chips like Intel with the exception of maybe IBM, Apple would not have picked Intel if they didn't see a damn strong line of processors coming up.