Stan,
Please fix your email. Getting tired of the [H][Bulk] business. RU really
clandestine?
More inline below............
Best,
Duncan
At 15:40 05/19/2009 -0500, you wrote:
Dude [bad rejoiner if you want to keep the discussion friendly!], I don't
want to get into a flame war
[reads like you really do!]
with you but 3 countries
[which 3? ULive in SoCal, so why do you even care about the other 2? U do
not live there........Oh!, Japan, Korea? Why do you even care? THEY
depen on U and I do buy what they build.....]
have independently concluded that Intel bribed manufacturers to freeze
out AMD in their distribution networks with so-called rebates and to
delay the release of AMD based products. AMD didn't make crappy PC's with
their products.
[just your opinion. Info here in the SE is that most of the returns are AMD.]
They made some missteps along the way (Phenom I) as Intel did (Netburst)
but AMD didn't attempt to bribe manufacturers to give preference to their
products. Intel did and next March we're going to see Intel get spanked
again in US court this time. The Ati division of AMD makes excellent
GPU's and I predict that nVidia is going to have a rude awakening in the
4th quarter when DX11 high performance cards come out.
[Clearly your opinion! My last 6 months with ATI video cards leaves me to
beg the HWG for suggestions to go back to nVidia. Yes, ATI may eventually
catch up. Right now, today, I am still watching; and converting back to
nVidia as fast as I can($)]
Larrabee is going to get spanked by both camps when Intel realizes that
using x86 to make a video card is another netburst dead end. ;-)
I do accept that UR an AMD fan-boy. Very strong. Fine. Suspected this 5 yrs
ago. Now confirmed.
OK. Perhaps I might be wimpy. Acceptable. I started way back when with
Intel (IP266). Now, I am coming back to Intel just because it seems to me
[?] that planet Earth is also moving Intel. You have every right to just
label me a whore..........on the other side.......... :)
No problemo!
Best,
Duncan
maccrawj wrote:
EU thinks anti-competitive the minute a company is successful & dominates
based on customer choice.
I say "look at all the crappy PC's that could have been made with AMD
chips these past 5 years (and some have been)! It's not been good for AMD
these past ~5 years and it has a more to do with AMD than Intel, just
look at them fraking up ATI.
Stan Zaske wrote:
Yeah, Intel has been in the news a lot lately and their poor decisions
are costing them dearly. Japan, Korea and now the EU have concluded that
they are anti-competitive. Next year I believe AMD will get their shot
in court and I predict that Intel will again be held accountable.
Imagine all the money that AMD lost over the past 5 years because of
Intel's bribes to PC makers. Beginning to look like the GM of the
semiconductor world minus the threat of bankruptcy of course.
