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AMD Plans Simultaneous Desktop and Mobile Chip Releases

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the everybody-skate dept.

wh173b0y writes "Tom's Hardware reports that AMD is planning to release both it's dual-core desktop and mobile chips at the same time. This news comes after AMD, who have been fairly quiet since the release of the Athlon FX-55, came up shorter than intel on the release dates for it's dual-core processors. Intel on the other hand has been busy planning more than a dozen different chips to release as well as pressing its software designers to embrace its 64-bit architecture."

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  1. It is good we still have competition by Husgaard · · Score: 5, Insightful
    It drives the market forward, forcing all parties to innovate.

    But take a moment to think about the current software patent madness, and what would have happened if this had been the case with semiconductor patents in 1980. In this scenario we would be lucky if Intel announced that the 486 would hit the market next year.

    If a company has a monopoly there is no incentive to innovate. Patents are monopolies, but they have to be balanced so the incentive to innovate is not taken away.

  2. Correction by leathered · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "..as well as pressing its software designers to embrace its 64-bit architecture."

    Should read 'embrace AMD's architecture'.

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    For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
  3. Two questions: by MacGabhain · · Score: 5, Insightful
    When is the last time Intel met a release schedule?

    When is the last time Intel failed to abandon at least a fourth of their in-development product line?

    Intel anouncing a dozen different dual-core processors for a range of machines is a joke, and frankly isn't even very good hype. Even if I believed it, I wouldn't be impressed. You don't NEED 12 different lines. Make 5 and make them right: 1) Super low power notebook; 2) performance notebook; 3) main-stream desktop; 4) enthusiast-gamer desktop; 5) Hardcore teraflops. (Oh wait... this is Intel. Better skip that last one. They're not exactly known for putting their effort into general-purpose FPUs.)

    1. Re:Two questions: by MacGabhain · · Score: 4, Insightful
      Sure. And I can order the 2.6GHz Opteron that tests out about the same there for $850 (It's the 252 in the test system). Best price I can find for an Itanium 2 1.5GHz is $6500. Yes, that's the CPU price.

      So, yeh, as long as you don't mind spending 7 times as much, you can get the FPU performance out of Intel.