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While reading Scientias good article about AMD Q4 earnings, i thought a little bit about the situation in the x86 market:

AMD touts the quad core K8L, Intel speaks about the 45 nm Core Duo, both tells the world that they are faster than the other. And both is correct for certain timeframes. Sounds familar. Yeah, it´s leapfrogging. When two architectures are rather similar (UltraSPARC and Power, AMD x64 or Intel x64) then the companies starts to play technical leapfrogging. At one point of time you lead the competition, at an different point of time it´s the competition.

Jon Stokes of ars.technica wrote a nice summary of the stuff already known about the next gen core dubbed K8L:A quick look at AMD's quad-core Barcelona.

Scientia explains in his blog, why Tigerton isn´t a real threat to AMD K8L Quad. It´s an excellent article which descibes the problems of Intel. In my opinion, we will see severe benchmarketing. I´m sure, that some benchmarks can live with the constraints of Tigerton, but system performance on real life task will be severly hurt by the FSB-architecture. I strongly believe that AMD was the correct choice for Sun at the long run.