First, I must admit that you have made numerous good points. That said, I have a few things to say of my own.
>>Price drops are normal, regular occurances. Has >>Intel cut their prices more and faster because >>of AMD? You better believe it, and this is >>certainly more of that. And that's a good thing. >>Of course, AMD's true impact on Intel has been >>the fact that the Celeron line exists at all.
True, but any more of these drastic price cuts and AMD will be forced even further into the 'hole'... in other words, the investors won't be too happy. With IDT and National Semiconductor out of business, there will be no competition for Intel - can you say - "NO MORE PRICE CUTS!".
>>2) AMD can't get their chips advertised. Pick up >>a Windows or a PC World these days . Try to find >>a computer with an AMD chip advertised. Guess >>what? You'll have to look in the back next to >>the porn ads. Why? The Intel Inside campaign. >>You'll notice that all the nice glossy 8-page >>fold-out ads from the companies you've heard >>all have that little blue swirl on >>them somewhere.
The AMD K6 processor never had a significant ad campaign, yet it has garnered close to 10% market share. Why, you ask? AMD likes to rely on the most primitive form of advertising - word of mouth. If the K7 truly is capable of what the latest benchmarks show, there will be plenty of people who know of its existence. Ok, its debatable whether or not the average PC user will adopt the K7. But show me one network engineer who would choose a 8 way PIII Xeon server (600 Mhz a pop) over a 8 way Athlon (1 Ghz a pop) [not to mention the price difference]. In other words, AMD has plenty of potential in the server market.
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True, but any more of these drastic price cuts and AMD will be forced even further into the 'hole' ... in other words, the investors won't be too happy. With IDT and National Semiconductor out of business, there will be no competition for Intel - can you say - "NO MORE PRICE CUTS!".
The AMD K6 processor never had a significant ad campaign, yet it has garnered close to 10% market share. Why, you ask? AMD likes to rely on the most primitive form of advertising - word of mouth. If the K7 truly is capable of what the latest benchmarks show, there will be plenty of people who know of its existence. Ok, its debatable whether or not the average PC user will adopt the K7. But show me one network engineer who would choose a 8 way PIII Xeon server (600 Mhz a pop) over a 8 way Athlon (1 Ghz a pop) [not to mention the price difference]. In other words, AMD has plenty of potential in the server market.