The more I get about Bulldozer, the more striking I am becoming. AMD has scarcely been able to maintain up with Intel for the past 6 years, which is unsatisfying taking into consideration the success they acheived with the initial Athlon and then Athlon 64.As Intel launched the Core 2 series, AMD has just been able to produce and sell processors that would certainly achieve around 90% of the overall operation of Intel’s top end processors.

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AMD also gone from die size and operation per watt inequalities as equated to Intel’s very fortunately Core 2 and Core i7/i5/i3 processors. The next generation of Sandy Bridge founded units once more exposed how deficient in overall design and performance AMD’s Phenom families of chips were.