KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK | AMD is going to crater
Man, AMD. It just gets worse and worse.
It's beginning to look like they are really are doomed. |
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Nightshade
sic semper tyrannis
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join:2002-05-26
Salem, OR
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April 12th, @03:50AM
| God I hope not. AMD was the greatest thing to happen to Intel. I used to be a AMD guy until this year when I built a new computer with a core2duo.
Distant competition is better than no competition. If AMD goes out of the picture Intel will go back to poor chips with outrageous prices. |
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Goldman
join:2002-06-21
Maumelle, AR | reply to KrK
I hope some company will buy them and keep the dream alive. But, no matter what, AMD has to start producing competitive chips |
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JokerCPoC
join:2005-11-21
Yermo, CA | reply to Nightshade
Yeah I hope not too, As AMD helps keep Intel fairly honest and not so greedy.
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Mchart
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join:2004-01-21
Gurnee, IL
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As with any other area, it goes in waves. It seems every other generation either AMD or Intel has the lead. This generation, Intel as a firm lead. AMD should be wetting their pants for the eminent release of Nehalem, however. Intel will finally have On-Die memory management, an allready blazing fast FSB, and a total of 8 cores. I don't know what AMD's plans are, but they better do something, and do it fast. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
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| AMD is out of money. I do agree about the waves, but AMD is being buried in a Tsunami right now. They have enough money to maybe last one more year, barring some miracle white knight appearing and helping them out for some CRAZY reason (IE not financial gain, but some other motive.)
The problem is AMD themselves keep saying they won't have any competitive products out anytime soon. They need something profitable, and they need it YESTERDAY.
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