It's clear from Anandtech's initial coverage of this year's Computex, that AMD is not going to steal the spotlight from Intel. With the P35 chipset just officially released, we are already seeing the upcoming X38 (available in late July) almost everywhere.

The main feature of Intel's latest, will be dual x16 PCIe 2.0, but from the looks of it you will be able to notice the difference in more than one way even if you stick to a single card solution:

"We did have a chance to view the X38 in action and while we cannot report benchmarks, let's just say that Intel's follow up to the 975X will be successful. We expect this chipset to be a hot product in more ways than one. Besides having what is shaping up to be class leading performance, the chipset will also have class leading power consumption and thermal outputs. The current estimated TDP rating is 36W; the chipset has a heat spreader on it, and expect to see temperatures near or above 60c while under load with current cooling techniques."

AMD, on the other hand, was hard to find. The new CPUs will probably be delayed after summer and it's unknown when the rest of their DX10 line will arrive. Let's hope Intel doesn't think twice about next month's price drop.

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