Is the Intel vs. AMD Chip War Back On?

(pcworld) -- With Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. pushing out a slew of new products this month, its long chilled chip war with Intel Corp. may just be heating up again, analysts say.

After struggling with delayed products and bad market and mindshare woes through 2007, a lot of industry pundits started writing off AMD. And while AMD struggled, Intel held strong over the last year and a half, coming out with quad-core chips and a 45-nanometer (nm) processor family and staying well ahead of AMD's roadmap. full story