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AMD Preparing To Give Intel a Run For Its Money

Posted by Soulskill on from the saddle-up dept.

jfruh writes: "AMD has never been able to match Intel for profits or scale, but a decade ago it was in front on innovation — the first to 1GHz, the first to 64-bit, the first to dual core. A lack of capital has kept the company barely holding on with cheap mid-range chips since; but now AMD is flush with cash from its profitable business with gaming consoles, and is preparing an ambitious new architecture for 2016, one that's distinct from the x86/ARM hybrid already announced."

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  1. Drivers? by Bigbutt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Honestly they need a better team writing the drivers. You can have the best CPU/GPU in the industry but if the drivers suck, no one will want to buy them.

    [John]

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    Shit better not happen!
  2. Re:Just like Bulldozer? by oh_my_080980980 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think the point was even with Intel's massive cash and infrastructure they couldn't bring 64 bit to the desktop - hell they couldn't do it on the server end either; thet Itanium chips were huge flops. And what killed Itanium was AMD's chip!

    " Itanium failed to make significant inroads against IA-32 or RISC, and then suffered from the successful introduction of x86-64 based systems into the high-end server market, systems which were more compatible with the older x86 applications." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

    So the point is that AMD was more than capable of producing a chip to beat Intel.