Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Jerry R]

SemiconEng - AMD's problems are all intels fault. Do you never get tired of blaming intel for AMD's problems?

Rabid Intel haters will never blame AMD for their mistakes. It is much easier for them to use Intel as a scapegoat for AMD's incompetence and pathetic execution.

If AMD wants to launch a successful product, then it has the obligation to create all of the infrastructure necessary to make it a success. It was unwise to depend upon so many outside vendors to do so much of the heavy lifting for Opteron (i.e. chipsets, motherboards, compilers, software content, etc.) that it puts the probablity of success in jeopardy.

Creating a new architecture does not come for free, and a "build it and they will come" attitude won't work to make AMD64 a success.