AMD-ATI has just delivered a blow to NVIDIA's plans with the launch of their new ATI Radeon HD 3870/3850 graphics cards. But this isn't all that AMD has prepared for the jolly Christmas season.

Specially wrapped for Intel with a little bowtie is a riposte from AMD consisting of the long-awaited AMD Phenom X4 desktop processor and the AMD Spider platform. Let's take a look at what the big hoohah is all about.