While the new ‘Vishera’ processors will be more than 5% quicker than their present counterparts, the AMD sales and marketing teams will be wondering if they can also bring the new products to market at the same or lower price than the current batch of chips.
Industry insiders have been saying for quite some time that AMD’s problem is less about the actual product – and more about how it places its stack next to Intel’s.
Pair the FX 8120 with a cheap mainboard, then overclock it to 4GHz or more, and you have the recipe to take Core i3 out the back door for a complete pasting.
Put the same CPU in with a £150 mainboard, get it compared to the overclocked Intel ‘k’ processors, and you’re gonna be accused of bringing a knife to a gun fight.
AMD CEO Rory Read orders FX CPU refresh for October
Posted on Wednesday, October 10 2012 @ 17:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck