<p><span style="font-size: small;">AMD is looking a lot more competitive in 2010 than I expected just a few months ago. Intel finally unveiled Clarkdale and thanks to the high cost of Core i5 ownership AMD hasn't really been threatened. The Core i3 530 is the biggest threat, but it only competes with one member of AMD's lineup at $113.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;">Thanks to continued improvements in Global Foundries' 45nm process, AMD is delivering slight clock bumps for its dual, triple and quad-core processors while dropping prices of others.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: small;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3726">Read more...</a><br /> </span></p>