The thing is, when new chipsets come out for Intel, Intel is the first to bring in the new wave because the others base theirs off Intels to a degree. So if you want the latest and greatest (from Intel that is) as it is emerging and you want to overclock it - too bad.
Regarding the fact that Intel's customer base is shrinking, it is going to take a major hit soon with the AMD K8 processors coming out April 22nd. nVidia has already got their chipset series, such as the nVidia K8S, out just waiting for AMD to start shipping the processors. The K8's are based off of the Hammers, which are 64-bit processors capable of running the current 32-bit instruction code we use today.
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