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Could this really happen? He does bring up a really good point about Nehalem being reliant on DDR3, though.

Well ...

The 13th of November in 2009 is on a Friday.

If they want to make predictions I wonder if they can guess which finger I'm holding up?

ummm... the middle one?

I think that the point of the article is that if DDR3 RAM price goes up instead of down that could really hurt Nehalem. That does make sense.

One word to sum that "story" up: B*ll*cks

Not so sure... that part about the Arabs selling off AMD for parts sure is likely. How much longer are they going to stand by while the value of their investment diminishes to next to nothing?

hahahahaha

I'll bet you Hector Ruiz's future job prospects that China will someday invade. IMHO they've been rattling a lot of swords lately and I think that they are just playing good right now to not spook people from going to the Olympics. Once they're over... watch out!

For what skittle laughed at, I always thought Taiwan was a Republic of China already.

Here is the flaw in this "theory" that I see. By the time all this happens Nehalem will only be barely on its way and they will still be producing Penryn more than Nehalem so if need be they can hold off on Nehalem and keep production of Penryn at full.

This will be easy considering that Nehalem will not fully replace Penryn until probably mid to late 2009 just like how currently Penryn is fazing out Conroe.

So unless Intel is dumb enough, and I doubt they are, it would have to be in late 2009 for this to be able to truly destory them.

Yeah, I can't see Intel dumping Penryn production like it says in that article, but who the heck knows what would happen when Intel found itself as the only player in the world CPUstakes? Absolute power corrupts absolutely!

You do know that the Chinese would still have to get past a certain US Navy fleet in the area in which the Chinese very well know that a US Carrier group is one of the most heavily armed fighting force afloat and underwater because of the 2 ssn's that are attached to said group. SSN is the designation for nuclear attack subs. So for that to happen in which the Chinese tried to flex there muscle before no to long ago and the carrier group was sent over to make them think twice. It's kind of hard defeating the Aegis Defense system especially with the new Standard 3 missles which one just took out a satellite not to long ago.

^This is treu as well. China doesn't have very much in terms of military technological power compared to the US. But they do have greater numbers. By almost 10x really.

Come on, can you see President Obama with his goody goody two shoes approach to foreign affairs risking WWIII over Taiwan? I can't. If the Chinese got really pissed off and wanted to invade Hawaii, Alaska, or even the US West Coast, the only way to stop them would be nukes and I can't see any US President ever pushing that button.

Anyway, this is a far tangent from Nehalem's DDR3 potential probs!

This is what happens when we don't make our own sh%% !

I try to avoid Made In China. I don't think I've been to a Dollar Store in years!

^the above two post are right. I try to stay away as well. But it truly is hard.

And um who would want to invade Alaska? Nothing really worth it except the oil. Other than that its just a ice wasteland sorta.

There is supposed to be around 9.3 billion barrels of oil in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve. Can you imagine what the Chinese would do to get their hands on that? There's a lot more than chilly moose up there!