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The Ups and Downs of AMD (hackaday.com)

Posted by samzenpus on from the winning-is-everything dept.

szczys writes: In 2003 AMD was on top of the world. Now they're not, but they're also still in business. AMD continues to produce inexpensive, well-engineered semiconductors. The fall over the last 10 years is due to Intel, who used illegal practices and ethically questionable engineering decisions to knock AMD off their roost while still keeping them in business. The latter prevents the finger of antitrust from being pointed at Intel the way it was for Ma Bell.

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  1. AMD is for Servers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    You are all for servers. Servers do serve! serve! serve! Serve servers serve! Serve do the servers. YOU MOOING COW SERVERS!!!

  2. Re:It Goes Deeper by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    How does a web site know what processor you're running?

    Perform a floating point calculation. If the answer is wrong you've got Intel Inside (TM) :-)