Dear Intel and AMD,

Congratulations both of you with the launch of your dual core processors this week. I understand it is quite an engineering feat to slam two processor cores on a single piece of silicon. I understand that it will give my computer a power boost without straining my utility bill.

And all that after you just gave us processors that were capable of addressing both 32 and 64 bits instructions. You must have a bigger plan for me, where I need al this power sitting on my desktop.

But I don't care.

You so eloquently explained in the past year that you understood that end users didn't need any more more processor power. That instead I wanted enhanced security, connectivity and the ability to watch my digital photos on my living room TV without needing a PhD in computer science.

Yet you bring us a childish fight over who gets to deliver the first dual core chip focusing on the fact that yours is bigger than his.

You promised you would change, that you would stop trying to sell us on ever faster computers that don't solve any real problems. But so far I've seen very little proof. Maybe it's time we split up?

21 Apr 2005