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AMD Announces A Shift In Focus From PC Processors
slughead writes "Forbes Magazine is reporting that AMD will no longer compete with Intel to make faster, smaller, and more efficient processors. Just as Mac users would be worse off if Windows didn't exist, Intel users will be much worse now that AMD will no longer compete. You see, there's this thing called demand, and when there are no competing products in a market, a good or service will always increase the price to the economic equilibrium, unless forced not to by the state (forget that right now, communists!!). In English: you're going to get less new technology, and higher prices on existing technology." On the other hand, AMD is definitely not exiting the chip business -- they're just trying to branch out from chips for microcomputers.
But the trouble is, most of their customers (present company mostly accepted) are stupid. They think that a higher clock rate IS what they need. If AMD want to stay in the CPU market with Intel, they need to keep increasing clock speed. I know that that's fighting things on Intel's terms, which isn't good, but won't simple-minded people otherwise just go with Intel's 'faster' CPUs?
== Jez ==
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A large chunk of the population actually does demanding work on their PCs, and this includes... programming, scientific computing.....artificial intelligence....KDE 3.1!
Um, I think you perhaps need to get out more often. Been hangin' around too many of us geeks for too long.
Table-ized A.I.
You forget that Macs are only a wart on the PPC penis :-) There are more embedded devices in the world, than any other type of CPU by an order of magnitude or two.