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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. They seem to have a good business model... by xtermz · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...with building up strategic alliances and subcontracting out manufacuring, but Intel still doesnt seem to be phased by any advances AMD has made... And i dont know why.. I would like to see somebody do a good writeup comparing AMD and Intel's practices, pointing out the strenghts/and/or weaknesses in both.. so one could get a feel of what makes Intel tick...

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  2. Competition is good by larien · · Score: 5, Interesting
    ...and I think AMD has shown this. As he says, "they changed because competition made them change. So I'm proud of that. " Up until the K7 (Athlon) came out, AMD and the now dead Cyrix chips were good, budget chips but they never matched the Pentiums in raw performance, at least where it counted for gamers, in floating point. Since the Athlon came out, Intel have had a fight on their hands which they're winning in some quarters (mainly the server arena), and losing in others.

    Intel have the bucks to hand out deals to keep Dell etc sweet and market others into submission, but while AMD keep producing good value chips, they will still have a market amongst those who know better (generally the geeks of the world :) ).

    I hope AMD keep going, but I hope they never crush Intel entirely, otherwise they may fall into the trap of becoming complacent and progress will slow.

  3. Tombstone? by rsborg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "Never surrender; never give up." - Jerry Sanders
    "Never give up; never surrender" - Galaxy Quest

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  4. Jeez. Bill is efverywhere! by jvmatthe · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Here is an interview with the CEO of AMD. Big company and an important chap -- you'd think he would get into the keywords for this document. Yet:
    <meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="UpsideToday, Upside magazine, Internet business, ebusiness, b2b, b-to-b, stock quotes, ipo, stock market, technology, high tech, venture capital, vc, e-commerce, funding, investing, ceo, Bill Gates">
    (That's my emphasis.) Just check the page source!
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