[H] Enthusiast – Intel Nehalem Technology Overview Webcast

One thing I’ve loved over the past few years is explaining to the Intel fanboys why my HPC at work is Opteron based.  Intel fans love to talk about clock speed and how the latest Core2 processor beats AMD’s Phenom in gaming benchmarks and such.  It always blows their mind when I explain how Opteron destroys anything with a FSB in the HPC space.  It seems Intel’s state of denial over AMD’s superior Hypertransport technology was largely a front for envy kept in secret.  Intel’s unveiling of their Nehalem platform reveals what is a near copycat design called QPI or QuickPath Interconnect.  It will be interesting to see AMD’s response to this design.  For now the Intel fanboys are predicting the swift death of AMD.  Let’s not forget that AMD developed this system for their 64-bit x86 platform (before Intel even had a 64-bit x86 on the roadmap) and was way ahead of the game then.  I seriously doubt they’ve been sitting on their laurels all this time.