[custom90gt]

hey guys,
I went to an Intel Channel Conference yesterday and was mainly dissapointed in Intels "roadmap".
They didn't spend a lot of time talking about the next generation NAPA platform for notebooks nor about the Yhona (sp.) core (which I really wanted to hear about), perhaps because it was more of a sales conference. They did however talk a lot about their next generation Xeon processors...
Pretty much from what they said the next gen xeons are going to be a new socket and 65nm with some upgrades. I was hoping for maybe a PM based arcitecture with an onboard memory controller or something cool, but its based on the current netburst stuff. It will use fully buffered dimms which are supposed to provide 17gb/s memory bandwith, this coupled with a two lane buss opperating at 1066mhz. That was pretty much the "technology" of the next gen xeons, not that exciting for what I was expecting. They showed some benchmarks compairing a 3.2ghz 2006 xeon against a 2.2ghz opteron and it barely won out. Intel's excuse was that the 3.2xeon was much more affordiable then the $3,500 opeteron . Intel throughout most of the conference was also getting pretty defensive about AMD, maybe they are realizing they are not bulletproof?
I will type more of the story later, but I have class now (which hopefully explains why this whole post is a ramble about nothing, lol).

*on edit* this is not the start of a flaming fanboy post war. I am just curious what everyone else things of Intels move? I am also curious about Intels claim that last month they sold more 64bit xeons then AMD could make 64bit opterons in the next 5 years. That claim sounds a little rediculas to me even though I understand Intel's market hold and how many fabs they have.