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Process is process
ARM and its business model represent an existential threat to Intel's x86 derived profits.
Intel is ramping up their process introductions and further Atom designs in an attempt to snuff that out before the ARM ecosystem becomes a real problem for Intel.
What you are suggesting would go a long way to strengthening ARM's ecosystem and be a terrible thing for Intel down the track.
There is literally no price Intel could charge(that anyone would pay), that would make your suggestion a good idea.
A negative for who?
Parts is Parts?
It is also the tax policy in Australia.
When Australia is kinder on tax than what someone would advocate for the USA, you know that something is wrong.
Why are you considering Intel's earnings as not belonging to it's shareholders?
Intel is made up of shareholders, so they are taxed when Intel's earnings are taxed.
In Communist Australia, we allow for the corporate tax rate of 30% that companies pay on their earnings, to be claimed back by shareholders when the shareholders lodge their Personal Tax Returns each year.
It strikes me as very odd that an American living in what is meant to be one of the Champion nations of Capitalism, should be making the argument(s) that you are making.
Just to clarify though, the dividends do get added to a shareholders gross earnings, and then they are taxed according to Australia's taxation scales, with the 30% tax on dividends then being subtracted from that person's deemed tax liability.
This means that until your total personal income exceeds the threshold where you pay more than 30%, as an individual taxpayer, you don't pay any tax on your dividends, as it would be regarded as double taxation to do so.
If your dividends where then so great that you are pushed into the highest tax bracket in Australia, then with the 30% you are able to claim back, the most it is possible for an individual shareholder to pay on their dividends is 15%.
It never ceases to amaze me the lengths the "Anyone But Intel" crowd will go to, in order to not think things through.
Do you really think Intel won't have a category of laptops below the Ultrabook specifications, that will be pitched against AMD's "ultrathins".
Were people buying an iPhone as a tribute to Steve Jobs?
The percentage gain vs Android for just one quarter is unbelievable.
Why do all of a sudden, iPhones become such a stellar seller?
The only true Cola is Pepsi Max.
I'm very keen on an 11" Ultrabook(Asus claim theirs is a measly 1.1kg), but I will probably wait till there are 22nm CPU's and SSD drives come down in price, as ideally I would like to get at least a 256gb SSD.
Is Clover Trail a 22nm product?
Now I would like to be able to do that, but how small a minority am I in here?
At the end of the day, can one just use Google Docs with an Android phone and thus avoid the need to access your documents with MS Word directly?
If a future smartphone can run full desktop Win 8, just how useful will this be to people considering the smartphone's screen size, lack of storage and weak CPU power?
Would I find after a while that I never run full desktop Win 8 because of the aforementioned shortcomings of a phone compared to a desktop?
If a sub $100 Chinese tablet can meet your computing needs, why not just stick with the Commodore 64?
How much benefit do you see in x86 compatibility for Intel in Smartphones?
What would users be able to(and likely to) do with a Atom powered Smartphone, that they wouldn't with a ARM powered Smartphone?
Your arguments in regards to the iphone(smartphone) vs the ipad(tablets) are pretty much identical to mine.
A mobile phone is a necessity, so may as well make it a smartphone, but a tablet is not much easier to carry around than a laptop, but comes with a severe usability issue and lack of computational horsepower compared to the laptop.
What argument are you actually making for Tablets over Smartphones?
A lot more people will have smartphones than tablets, simply because a smartphone integrates more things than a tablet and is far easier to carry.
Why would anyone have a tablet, but not a smartphone?
Where are you getting your E5 top SKU improvement percentages from?
I would never put you on ignore, as I would be depriving myself of many laughs. :D
I was able to work that out by reading glowing web reviews and watching a few YouTube clips.
I'm just amazed WBMW needed to buy the thing to work out how useless it was.
How come you weren't able to work out how useless tablets are before you actually bought an ipad?
Weren't you able to predict its shortcomings?
Chuckles will ban people for "trolling", if they correct the idiotic notions of the fanboys.
It was true, all true I tells ya, but then, something changed.
This can't be true because as we all know, the Dancing Queen has said that Apple is going to dump Intel from their MacBook Air range. <<rolls eyes>>
If that guy called Rich really does work for Global Floundries, no wonder their 32nm process is so crap. LOL
Yes I have seen you make this point a number of times and I agree with your assessment that it is Intel's installed base of previous CPU's that is the biggest constraint on Intel pricing going forward, rather than AMD's current products at the moment.
I can't ever remember seeing such cheap processors from Intel that tempt me.
In December 2009, I bought a i7-860 and that chip cost me about $340, and now I could get a 2500K for $225ish, or a 2600K for about $330 and both give significant performance gains over my i7-860 and were doing so after 18 months or less than when the i7-860 was available.
When Intel first released Nehalem on the desktop with the i7-920, I could easily see how Intel was extracting full value for themselves, but now they seem to be pricing their products lower than they need to.
A very benevolent monopoly.
You keep insisting that Intel stopped engaging in marketshare price wars, yet look at the incredible price one can buy the 2500K & 2600K for.
They are much more compelling price/performance CPU's than Intel had 4 or so years ago when according to you Intel was engaging in marketshare price wars.
More like AMD just couldn't find the performance to keep up with Intel, so people have deserted AMD for Intel.
Even before Fruehe's Bulldozer BS blew up in his face, who could take him seriously with how much time he spent posting on AMDZone with seriously crazy and/or stupid people.
You say John Fruehe, I prefer to call him "Randy Allen 2" :D
Do you have a view on whether AMD is likely to rack up multiple QTR's of Red Ink due to BD's dudness, or can they get by largely on Yawno and Bobcat?
Go those Triple-Cores, heh?
Isn't it a bit late to be developing a DDR3 alternative?
How long before DDR4 becomes the norm?
Elmer isn't obsessed with you, he just likes to poke fun at ignorant people.
If Intel does crack the phone market, one of the benefits will surely mean your ridiculous assertions about how using a phone is so wonderful for "Casual PC use", will disappear.
Everyone knows you are only mad for phones coz it ain't a place where Intel has a meaningful presence.
If Intel gets a meaningful presence there, you will no doubt start trying to pump up some other area where Intel isn't, as the next big thing.
What do you mean by "quickly turned into a AMD fan site"?
With the Dancing Queen running it, it was an AMD fan site from the very beginning.
Meri-ju-wanna-BMW?
That 2012 "mainstream" date only refers to Yawno's replacement and says nothing about when the BD's that are meant to target high end desktops will arrive.
Thanks for the info.