On 10/24/2012 01:20 PM, Topher Cullen wrote:
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Daniel Fussell <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
AMD has been great, with the exception of the K5's, and this last
Bulldozer fiasco. I have my hopes that AMD will get it together
and put out a better chip/architecture in the future. But
everything they were dominant on last decade has been matched by
Intel, and they've been too proud to drop back their pricing to
the budget-pc realm. From their conference addresses I gather
they are betting the farm on the tablet, ultra-portable, and
custom processor markets. I don't know if that will be a
brilliant play based on genius-level market insight, or just one
step shy from formally admitting they handed the desktop and
server markets to Intel, for at least the next 5 years.
AMD was great, 5 years ago. Saying that Intel has been matching them
on hardware the last 5 years would be incorrect. AMD has been
releasing products that are inferior in almost every regard to current
gen Intel and cost more.
They have see-sawed lead positions for as long as I've had a computer.
And that goes back to my first AMD 486 DX2/80. Even if you break it out
into categories of power, performance, price, thermal, they still have
switched off position in each category. It'll be 5 years before we see
the results of an AMD response, if any. Right now it's Intel for pretty
much every category, that's all I'm saying.
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