IDF 2007: That is why Kentsfield / Yorkfield are not native
Intel simply could not pull out good
yields on a native quad core in 65 nanometre, and that is what some
of the engineers have told us during IDF.
They said that they still think that
Barcelona is a yield suicide and that despite the fact that Intel has
the best transistors around it simply could not make such a chip.
K10 starts to look ok but it is six
months late and AMD suffers severely because of that. Intel won't be
easy on AMD even this year as SSE4 will boost Penryn even more and
make the CPU even faster and after that comes Nehalem that will
definitely put AMD in a very bad position.
Intel feels good
being in a leading position again but it is concerned about AMD, as the
company needs competition to get the FTC of its back.
