On 3 Dec 2005, at 00:12:480, Hayes Elkins wrote:
From: James Boswell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
To: The Hardware List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [H] -LO- CNet does a test workout: Dual Core AMD vs.
DualCoreIntel
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:52:04 +0000
Good point, the centrino branding is probably quite the
moneyspinner for them.
If I am not mistaken, this is the first year that Intel based
notebooks outsold Intel based desktops. I don't think Intel is
crying too much over AMD's pyrrhic victory in the desktop segment
when they have shifted most of their business to focus on a
lucrative mobile market.
AMD outsold intel in the retail desktops segment for the past few
quarters as I recall, Although I think Intels biggest worry about AMD
is the server segment though, they're starting to get some proper
recognition there, hell, Ebay just announced they were moving over to
a cluster of a few hundred Sun rigs with Opterons in them.... add
that in with FAB36 coming online and AMD actually having CAPACITY
with which to make things... and.. well if Ebay and Sun are taking
you seriously, you've already made a big impact,
My main hope is that Intel don't squash AMD like a bug, and it looks
like AMD will maintain their interconnect advantage, this is actually
a good thing, because it gives AMD a chance to rejig their core and
give us (the end user) some tit for tat performance/price wars,
rather than getting swatted like flies and having no response and new
chips from intel being stupidly overpriced...
Oh, one thing that should be interesting in the 06/07 timeframe, FB-
Dimm.. which, more or less means Intel will be on an integrated
memory controller, it'll just have a cascade based approach to it..
sorta...
We live in interesting times.
-_-_
James Boswell
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