Intel moving forward with incredibly fast 45nm chips, what will AMD do to counter?

It seems that Intel isn't going to be losing it's crown as fastest CPU manufacturer any time soon. They are testing new 45nm chips that will increase the processing speed of their processors from 8-10GB/s up to an incredible 128GB/s and that's just at 2.2Ghz clock speed. It is speculated that if they can manager to increase the clock speed to those of the Q97xx series that they would be able to accomplish an incredible 200GB/s if not more.

In comparison, AMD's quad core, Opteron processor can manage about 8GB/s. Assuming that AMD is not going to utilize Intel's new methods of production, it is unlikely that we will see AMD processors as being any serious competition to Intel in the near future. AMD does have plans for new processors to be released in 2009, the "Bulldozer" processor, however, they are still working on completing the "Shanghai" processor to be released later this year and there is still very little detail about that processor and as such, even less information available about the "Bulldozer" processor. However, the one thing we do know about "Bulldozer" is that it wil be a total redesign of the AMD processor. "Shanghai", to be released later this year, will be the last of the Athlon 64 based chips AMD is going to produce before "Bulldozer's release.