Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[drjohn]

At current price levels, the energy bill for the power the CPU consumes over the lifetime is in the same ballpark of the pricetag of the CPU (assuming an office-system running 800 days in four years for eight hours.

You must have very expensive utilitiy rates or you buy your
CPU's for $20-$30, because that what the electricity costs
of running a 100 watt bulb eight hours/day X 800 days would
cost in my neck of the woods. Electricty costs in most
western ecomonies are laughable, its one of the reasons people
do not conserve.

unless the world is perceiving AMDs products as a clearly better choice at the point of sale.

Defintely not the case if you go by recent CPU sales.