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.

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Why Intel is so expensive

[droyad]

We had a customer the other day who dropped her computer in friday morning (after a storm) complaining that the modem was not working. We found that somehow (probably the storm) had fried the COM port.

Now she took the computer back home and we rang Intel on friday lunch time to get an advanced replacement for the 2.5year old motherboard (Basically they send the board first, then you send the broken one back).

Monday lunch time, the courier came and delivered the new board. Now this board had made it all the way from Malaysia or somewhere to Brisbane, Australia.

In other words with intel products we are able to offer the customer a warrenty repair in three days at no cost to us at all. You can't get that kind of service from AMD.