Remember Intel's Nehalem? Oh, wait, they didn't release that one yet! Anyway, there are a lot of things known about it already, like the fact that it may be faster than expected, will have support for triple channel DDR3, and - that's no good news for AMD, but it was expected - sooner or later, Intel's Nehalem will be a direct competitor to the AMD Fusion platform, although these two only have a few things in common. This is not about head to head racing, but about survival(AMD's, of course), but it seems Nehalem may not arrive in time, and so here's another opportunity for AMD to catch up!


Ehhh...did anyone say "delay?" Here's what Doug Freedman, analyst at American Technology Research, says - "Our checks suggest Intel’s Nehalem server parts will initially launch in single-socket only, which we believe will be viewed by customers and investors as a delayed ramp of the company’s second generation 45nm server architecture due out in late 2H ’08. We believe this may be viewed as the second launch delay in recent weeks and is likely to call into question Intel's solid record of on-time execution."

I don't think that many users can't get enough with the latest Intel processors, or even with AMD ones, and so probably hearing that Nehalem may be delayed isn't such a big disappointment, but it's funny to see that, after claiming last year that octa-core Nehalems will be shipping in 2008, Intel's CEO Paul Otellini is now saying they will only be able to produce the Bloomfield quad-core Nehalem this year!

Well, if the Nehalem chips really get delayed, and AMD manages to release the Shanghai 45nm server chip, we may see things slowly getting back on track for AMD, but I wonder why does Intel have to lie to its users? I always think it's better to say "I'll get there, but I may be late" and arrive on time, rather than doing it the other way around, as Intel seems to have done with the Nehalem chip...