RMstudents Technology meets medical education

It's scary how well Intel has been moving. For such a giant company they've become very organized and agile.

Anandtech takes on the e8500, and of course it is nothing short of amazing. 4.5Ghz on water cooling. I don't need that much speed, but boy do I want it. And here's more proof that Intel is pretty much "set" for the next 4-5 years. Even if they screw up this Intel Atom launch, and all the other things they're getting into, they can surely depend on this nice tick-tock model they've got going:

The e8500 is in the Penryn family.. so they took the brilliant Core architecture and just shrank it to 45nm, and voila because we're getting to such small scales the performance improvements are nearly 10-15% on a clock-for-clock basis (well it was more than just the shrinking that did it, read Anandtech to find out what). Later this year Intel will debut Nehalem, and will have finally migrated to an on-die memory controller, effectively doing away with any memory latency issues they've had when compared to AMD's architecture.

I really hope AMD has an answer to this, but good for Intel. (but bad for competition?)