Om Malik turns a keen eye to Intel, who might be trying to slink off into the corner to lick some Itanium wounds, but not before trying to distract the market with its (superb) Dothan core. Just a few days ago, see, Intel made modest headlines when they announced plans to scrap future Tejas and Jayhawk roadmap (the next iterations of its Pentium4/Xeon architecture) to instead build a dual-core version of its wildly popular Pentium M chip. Don’t let that news slide past without notice—Intel essentially said, “We blew it,” and have conceded the next 6 to 18 months of innovation to AMD and others. Now add into that news that Michael Fister, head of the Itanium project is leaving, and, well, crazy things are afoot.
This is AMD’s time, and they know it. Can they kung-fu Intel while they have a chance?
Read [GigaOm]
