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AMD Launches Counterstrike Against Core 2 Duo
DigitalDame2 writes to mention a PC Magazine article about the AMD 4x4 enthusiast platform, which is meant to counter Core 2 Duo. The article observes that AMD is now facing many of the same business practices it used in its war against Intel. From the article: "While imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, improvement can often be a slap in the face. Intel's C2D was designed with both low power and performance per watt in mind, two key design metrics that helped AMD cut into Intel's market share with the Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 X2. And, as preliminary numbers have indicated and final performance reviews now show, the C2D has learned its lesson well: its performance now tops AMD's Athlon 64 architecture by a substantial margin."
I tried to read this article and all I could think of was that AMD is mad that strafe jumping got patched and that Intel learned how to bunny hop. I'm hung over. Need sleep.
We need corporate wars to thin things out. Fuck'n A! The Governments of the World are just too incompetent! It's obvious that the MBAs of the World need to unite and show these Bozoes how to fuck'n do it!
Yes siree, profit above all else! Fuck these Goddman bald monkeys!
Hey, I'm not done yet! Put those fucking jackets away!!! Hey!!! Mmmmmmmm!mM!M!M!M
Put in straight jacket and sent to a Ph.D business program.
Mayor of London Ken Livingston introduces a GHz charge on microprocessors used in London as he gets confused by the fact that AMD are to launch 4x4, as he thinks that they take up too much space and are bad for the environment.
*ducks*
My processor goes to eleven.
After reading the title, I was expecting to see projectile CS:Source CDs shattering Intel processors.
Look, we have hyper-threading/SMT/whatever, so our 2 cores are as good as 4 of your cores. Besides each of our cores are faster than your cores. And nobody needs more than 4 cores anyway. With our supercallifragilisticexpiallidotious memory bandwidth, even our dual core processors will beat your 16-core processor, because memory bandwidth is what really matters. So in order to make consumers think about performance again, and not just the number of cores, we will name our processors with a "virtual core number" that reflect real-world performance better. Thank You!
Tut tut! Another sloppy editor. What is wrong with the industry standard:
AMD launches Core 2 Duo Killer
Sure you can. All you have to do is dig out those Dos 6.0 disks. Both your boot and application startup times will be blindingly fast. I've been tempted to try it :)
The article header would have us believe "Valve software" is the new benchmarking standard. ;)
STFU!! AMD is t3h R0x0r n00b!!!!!1!1!!111
Wow, that felt great! I see what you mean!!!
Judging from most of the posts I read here, I think "mommy" is more likely.