Last post I basically lamented my lost hope for AMD's platform. Well, there still may be hope, if this past week's news is to be believed. First, is the news that AMD is getting good results internally with their SATA 6G controller, so if that can be translated to this external world of ours, that gives them a competitive edge finally. Second, X-bit's update on the status of the new CPU's implies we should see them any day now. It's not the Thubans that are so interesting, though, it's the Zosma. It has more L3 than the current quad-core Phenoms, so assuming latency hasn't been shot way up, performance/clock should improve a little. Combine that with 400Mhz turbo boost, and a (hopefully) low price, and we may actually have a competitor to the i5-750. Especially considering Intel hasn't moved their quads to 32nm yet.
Both of these hopes need to be realized together. Please AMD, for the sake of yourself, don't miss this opportunity.
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