Roadmaps to the Future

AMD has been slowly ramping up a drumbeat about their plans for the future of the CPUs. With their recent acquisition of ATI they have a key component for their idea of modular processors. Ars Technica has a good post explaining in depth the multifaceted plan for customizable solutions.

Intel on the other hand seems to be sticking with their general purpose processors by pushing more and more cores and good performance per watt numbers.