AMD stepping out of the Shadows

From the Register, info on AMD's demo of dual-core Opteron box and InfoWorld has a special report on AMD and how they are comming out of the shadow of Intel.

Very interesting is the Chart of "AMD Invented Here" technologies that other has used and refined: HperTransport bus (Apple and Transmeta); NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Access), DDR Ram (forced Intel to dump Rambus memory); Glueless CPU interconnects; x86-64

all this follow's up The Dual Core Wars: AMD vs Intel