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AMD Admits To Slowing Sales
An anonymous reader writes "Forbes is reporting that AMD has fessed up to investors about slowing chip sales. The price war that Intel has initiated seems to be taking its toll on the manufacturer." From the article: "The current drivers of business in the computer chip industry seem to revolve around Intel and AMD price war, uncertainty about how a slowing economy will impact consumer spending plans, and imminent product introductions from Intel that may be causing some consumers to hold off on purchases. Investors should get a better picture in the next few weeks--AMD will issue its full second-quarter report on July 20, a day after Intel is scheduled to report its results."
Price fixing, especially at a strategic time like this, just shouldn't be allowed. I'm not sure there's really enough evidence for it to go to court unfortunately, and could cost AMD dearly if they try to fight it legally. Intel have a small bump in performance that brings them a bit closer to AMD performance, and they use this along with a lot of intel fanboyism in the media in the last six months to boost their image, and on top of that they price fix their prices downwards to half of AMD. No single one of these things is probably any different to what most companies would do if given half the chance, but they're stacking the odds in their favour by performing all things at once, making cheaper chips, better chips and putting good reviews out in the media.
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And in the end the better man (AMD) is the one that suffers. Being a smaller company too they will suffer more than Intel will suffer from having to put up with lower prices. It's a classic MS strategy
No need to be a complete asshole. You aren't a people person, are you?
I never said that Intel CPU's wouldn't work. Since your ability to read between the lines is either severely impaired or completely lacking, I'll spell it out for you. In my experience, Intel CPUs are noisy and not as fast as their AMD counterparts...hence the reason why AFTER seeing how the Mini makes absolutely no noise, and way less than my old AMD boxes, and is one of the fastest computers I have owned, I am actually quite happy with it. Sorry for not making this more clear so that people like you could understand what I was saying. Did you need a diagram as well?