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Intel's New Architecture Too Late?
rts008 writes to tell us that TG Daily has an interesting interview with Randy Allen, AMD's vice president of the server products division, about (among other things) AMD's recent stellar fourth quarter numbers. From the article: "Responsible for that shrinking lead is especially AMD's server products group. Intel's CEO Paul Otellini recently acknowledged that Intel had to give up market shares to AMD and will likely be forced to hand over more shares until the next generation of server chips arrives. [...] AMD's Randy Allen explains in this conversation with TG Daily why he believes that Intel will need much more than a new processor to be able to slow AMD's growth."
Despite the postivie spin Apple is trying to put on being forced to use Intel chips, they must know the shambles Intel's roadmap looks like over the next five years.
With IBM telling Apple to get lost last year and AMD far from being able to supply Apple with enough chips, Apple has to be looking at using the Intel based Macs as a way to ease their way out of computer hardware and into a software only company on the personal computer side of the company.
Outside of the curious Windows users with a bunch of disposable income burning through their pockets, no one is in the market for Intel systems unless they have no choice - like corporate customers buying Dell systems.
The diehard Mac crowd seems to believe the fairytale where Intel is just about to release 'the good stuff' in six months. The problem is Intel is always just about to release 'the good stuff' in six months.
The AMD fanboy salute: http://www.leapsbeyond.com/
/apologies, obligatory
Everyone with half of a brain runs on AMD (except if it's a mobile thing.)
I'm interested in making some.. Please send mail to t_kennedy@senate.gov and we'll talk...