Huh maybe I'm misreading, but checking out some random cpu comparison sites, the Ultra's out perform AMD when at similar price points, and a difference of about $100-200 when the same performance? The article is very marketing-heavy
Not in games.
Right. In typical workstation loads (e.g. data processing where the same data is not handled repeatedly) the 3D V-Cache doesn't help much and are better off with the 'X' suffixed parts.
"We did not plan on our main competitor to do that bad... then we cannot handle the demand"