AMD Back in the Black

XaXXon writes "CNN reports that AMD had a profitable quarter for the first time in over two years. According to the story this is mostly because of their 64-bit line of chips (both Opterons and Athlon-64). AMD has forced both HP and Intel to change long-standing plans of only supporting Itanium, with HP coming out with Opteron-based systems and Intel releasing chips mimicking the 32/64-bit behaviour of the Opteron. According to the story, 64-bit processors are better than 32-bit ones because 32-bit processors 'can't take advantage of more than 4 megabytes (sic) of memory at a time.'"

Comments

Does AMD have anything to compete with Centrino

[MountainMan101]

They're chasing big boys market at the moment with 64-bit, but do they have something for the laptop market to match Centrino.

Go, Go AMD

[JamesP]

Way to go AMD. Intel is eating dust on this one...

The problem is, Intel went from an Engineering company to a marketing company. Let's just hope it doesnt became a lawsuit comapny...

In related news

[Anonymous Coward]

AMD has made deep cuts in their CPU prices, probably pre-emptively.

Re:AMD HEAT PROBLEM

[dave-tx]

The K6-II+ and K6-III+ are fantastic processors for low-heat applications, because they were intended to be used in notebooks. I ran my email/web/firewall on a K6-III+, overclocked to 550MHz, for years. It was cool, quiet, and so freakin' stable that I would reboot it every couple of months just for kicks.

On the other hand, I had a dual Athlon-MP machine that was like an oven. Really nice computer, but it had to go, because it made my computer room too hot.

I, too, am looking forward to an Opteron-based system in the future. As a former AMD employee, they'll always have my financial support as long as they continue to produce innovative products.