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Upside interviews Jerry Sanders of AMD
An Anonymous reader writes "Titled The Last Man Standing, this Upside interview offered an inside view of the bloody war between the two CPU makers from Sanders' point of view. He also talks about upcoming Hammer, flash memory, Transmeta and telecomm bubbles. Somehow I get a feeling that both companies are living under the heavy cloud of Microsoft. Pretty lengthy, but an interesting reading.""
This guy is a fucking guru at bullshitting. The interview is about as interesting as a fucking year end report from AMD. There's absofuckinglutely nothing of importance there that you cannot get from Anadtech or Tomshardware. Stuff like "AMD is going to be better than Intel because our chips are smaller."
I'm not so upset at that PR pissant as I am at the interviewer. It's a common trait amongst faggoty web journalist to cream their trousers when thrown a bone from a major corporation. The corporations know that the bush league fuckfaces won't dare write anything bad, for fear of getting black listed.
I'm so fucking mad about this shit. And what is that bullshit Microsoft crap? AMD markets their fucking chips for the Microsoft market. He's playing the Linux crowd as a bunch of two bit cock whores who can't tell spin from fact. It's nice to see that AMD has people as fucking stupid as any other corporation. Cocksuckers.
Why people insist on publishing his looping rants as corporate manna is beyond me.
Well, I'm a geek...and I've extensively studied computer architecture in grad. school. I won't put an Athlon into an important machine. Its fine for casual desktop use, but in my experience, an Athlon is not as stable as a PIII (I have no experience with a P4). PIII's draw half as much power thus you don't need to worry about a great power supply. You don't need to worry about subtle incompatibilities such as the AGP cache coherence bug. And there are just too many lousy Athlon motherboards out there. That may not be AMD's fault, but its the truth. I know dozens of Athlon users who consistently tell me that their Athlon machine will freeze every few months or so. I've never heard of such a thing with PIII's, that is unless they are using a lousy OS such as Win9x.
Granted I do in fact use an Athlon for one of my machines and am generally happy with it. I just wouldn't trust it when things really matter (like a server situation or when doing a 10-week numerical computation).