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Is AMD Dead Yet?
TheProcess writes "Back in February 2003, IBM predicted that AMD would be dead in 5 years (original article here), with IBM and Intel the only remaining players in the chip market. Well, 5 years have passed and AMD is still alive. However, its finances and stock price have taken a serious beating over the last year. AMD was once a darling in this community — the plucky, up-and-coming challenger to the Intel behemoth. Will AMD still be here in 5 years? Can they pose a credible competitive threat to Intel's dominance? Do they still have superior but unappreciated technology? Or are they finally old hat? Can they really recover?"
Although AMD is not that advertised as Intel is, it continues to remain a solid product company.
For instance the AMD Athlon X2 64-bit dual core chip i use, is quieter, less power hungry and more powerful than its intel-equivalent.
I have always thought of Intel chips as a short, well-built sprinter, whose ting pegs can carry him over a short distance quickly but in the longer haul (marathon), it can keep up only by downing copious amounts of glucose fluids and sweats a lot.
AMD is a picture of a tall (6.5 feet), lean, kenyan man, whose stamina, endurance make him take the 15 mile marathon easily without breaking a sweat.
AMD would be either bought over by IBM or even by Microsoft.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
It's a bit hard to imagine that both CPU, GPU and Flash RAM will all tank at once.
:-)
It would be called a "core dump"
Table-ized A.I.
A caveman dreams of being us, the incalculable power and riches. We dream of being Q, then what?
Excellent points sir. ... ...
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Whoa, one thing at a time — let's see off BSD first, OK?
For full disclosure, I should add that last I checked was twenty years ago.
Can they pose a credible competitive threat to Intel's dominance?
Do they still have superior but unappreciated technology?
Or are they finally old hat? Can they really recover?
You will get the answers to these question and plenty of others in the next episode, released starting from 2013.
Don't you know it is now both immoral and criminal to think beyond the next quarterly report?
...is to create the 128 bit architecture upgrade for their processors.
Ironic that IBM isn't manufacturing popular CPU's anymore.
And that's a bad thing?
I click those malicious links out of curiosity, I guess many people do. It's not like increased traffic to one of those sites are doing anyone any good, or is it?
Anyways, I enjoy looking at what 'malicious' javascript games those kids come up with.
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
AMD's market share must have shrunk a bit from the old days if your purchase has such an effect. Unless you meant to say that you just ordered one million AMD 4800+ processors.
Well, if this was the Manly Things Forum dedicated to beer, monster trucks, and movies prominently featuring drill sergeants, I would've gone with the other thing.
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Actually, he did. Those new nForce mainboards really are the best if you need 2000000 to 4000000 cores.
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Sorry, I couldn't resist.
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