Brute force attack planned by Intel to blunt AMD's edge | The Register

Brute force attack planned by Intel to blunt AMD's edge | The Register: "Intel's enterprise chief Pat Gelsinger took the stage today at the Intel Developer Forum to convince customers, developers and media jackals that the chipmaker has embarked on one of the grandest turnarounds in IT history. After failing to gauge the immediate impact 64-bit extensions and dual-core chips would have on x86 servers, Intel has decided to flood the market with dual-core chips, four-core chips, specialized technology for handling system management and partitions and a vast portfolio of software meant to improve partner applications. Cool chips, smart chips, complex chips, fast chips - Intel will have them all.
In a candid moment after his keynote, Gelsiner confessed to The Register that 'it took awhile' to realign 'the whole product line.'
Intel executives made mistakes by growing too fond of GHz and reliant on increasing cache sizes to make up for delays between processors and memory. Insiders say that engineers warned Intel's brass that it too would need to produce dual-core chips and use lower-power processors more quickly than expected, but management ignored such warnings, believing a manufacturing miracle would save the company."