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"You're nothing but a second rate, trying hard, copy cat!" A popular line from a popular actress of the Philippine cinema. It applies also to the continuing rivalry for supremacy on CPU architecture. AMD claims that its rival Intel, is copying its approach on the design of its future products.

Goliath mimics David. From X86-64, Hypertransport to Intel's Quickpath bus, Fusion to Larrabee, and now the built-in memory controller.

Products that are more than a year away, like Nehalem (compare to native quad-core AMD Opteron), and QuickPath (compare to AMD Direct Connect Architecture and HyperTransport) are simply Intel’s admission that AMD was right all along about an integrated memory controller being the key to a superior processor architecture,” AMD said.

Again, from a popular Philippine TV Game Show - Intel, kindly tell this to AMD - "May tama ka!"

More info: Xbit Labs