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Upside interviews Jerry Sanders of AMD

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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.""

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  1. Re:Competition is good by BrookHarty · · Score: 3, Informative

    I went with AMD when I saw the benchmarks from average users. The K6 had problems, and made me stay with P2/P3s. Comparing pricing and performance, AMD is better on most accounts. My AMD 1800 is faster than a P4 2ghz in all areas but the 400mhz bus.

    Just check out Mad Onion 3dmark 2001 and looks at the scores, AMD is leading the way on the top machines!

    I might have to get a dual AMD MP machine thou, the prices are coming down, and with newer chipsets for AMD, will make it even faster. 333mhz bus?

  2. History revised by MobyDisk · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article is pretty good if you want to see a management level rewrite of history. Mr. Sanswers leaves out a few interesting details, like how AMD's turning point at the K6 came from buying out NexGen and rebranding their NX86 chip. It is hard to make AMD look like a small company battling a giant when they were buying out smaller companies, filing thousands of patents per year, and knowingly violating IP agreements hoping Intel would settle.

    Nonetheless, it all worked. And I'm very glad it did.

  3. Re:Too bad he as to leave, cuz he's cool! by BasharTeg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Running equal performance at a lower clock speed shows better design and engineering. If you're actually a student of Computer Science, that means something.

    If you're the kind of guy that reads http://www.sandpile.org/ you know what I'm talking about. If you're just a consumer reading about Quake 3 framerates on Tom's Hardware, I guess it doesn't matter. (No offense)

  4. AMD in Xbox 2 by tbreffni · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to The Register, Microsoft is designing the new Xbox 2 around an AMD processor. It seems that Microsoft is trying it's best to help AMD against Intel, as the interview with Jerry mentions Microsoft helping AMD out with their 64bit Processor. Any thoughts on this?