Is the reign of Intel over?

Everyone knows the jingle, the happy little tones of Intel. We all giggled when we spied the little "Intel Inside" sticker on the outside of that first Pentium CPU-it was like a whisper through our cochlea that said, "this is gonna be so much better than that 486, hallelujah, praise be to God." Ah the memoriesthe ten-year-oldmemories. But it had to happen someday that a sapling, a kid from the Bronx, some daggum whippersnapper of a company would threaten the reign of the king. The main event is just around the corner, as AMDI'm sorry, who? Ahem, Advanced Micro Devices is gaining ground on the champ. The first sign of an aging and out of shape champion was this week's race to market dual-core server processors. Intel had planned on releasing its dual-core in May. But once word came that AMD's would be launched on April 21, a dazed Intel made a sprint for the first-on-the-market finish line. Unfortunately for Intel, tugging on its shorts on April 18, gasping and wheezing at it looked at the reports, AMD's dual-core was better!