AMD is not just being an Intel clone but an actual chip leader, ... This is the most competitive that AMD has ever been.

Apple knows that even with this Intel chip switch, it's not going to go around talking about chips and what's inside the box. The company builds on the differentiation it's already found from its software, which combines with the design of the machine.

Tualatin is a dynamite server chip. One of the reasons (Intel) decided not to go forward with the Foster-based Xeon chip was because Tualatin, with its larger cache, had better performance in server environments.

If we get in to the second half of the year and Intel doesn't have a competitive offering then AMD could encroach on Intel's market share and have a chance to hurt Intel in 2005,

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see.