Several hacks here in San Francisco have already been delivered with samples of Intel's Dunnington chip, it has emerged.

That, of course, is good news for Intel but news for Sunnyvale based AMD. As the count formerly said, no one treads on the tail of the Intel tiger without it snarling and biting back.

However, the big news here is not about Nehalem and Dunnington but about the man from Larrabee. Sources tell the Examiner that games developers will not be willingly coerced into developing multiple threads for the 2008/2009 'conFusion Chip'.

This is going to be a big big problem for Intel. Believe it or not, games developers actually prefer to develop for Nvidia graphics processors and even AMD-ATI, believe it or not. X