AMD has a clear message to send. The soon-to-launch Athlon X2 E7000 series based on dual-core 65nm, K10 architecture, codenamed Kuma will end up being faster than Intel's E5000 series.

This is actually not really a fair fight as Intel’s Pentium dual-core E5200 works at 2.5GHz while AMD's new Athlon 7750 works at 2.7GHz. AMD obviously didn’t want to compare 2.7 GHz clocked Pentium dual-core E5400, as we suspect that the performance advantage would stay at Intel’s side.

AMD will naturally have to fight Intel with price and AMD won't have a better dual-core solution until Q3 2009, when it comes out with the new Regor dual-core, but it also plans to fight the real Core 2 duo-based CPUs with its upcoming Heka and Rana three cores.