Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Petz]

I can't see the customers, who are OEMs, not you and me, going along with this new scheme. OEMS do not want INTEL taking the credit for the features they put in their products. That gives them NOTHING to differentiate between themselves except PRICE.

This may be what Intel wants, but the OEMs would be FOOLS to go along with it.

If MHz were being replaced by Performance, I would have applauded, but its not.

MHz is being replaced by "features," and the features on a computer have next to nothing to do with the CPU chip family.

In fact, "features" can be created by Intel's marketing department, irrespective of whether it bears any resemblance to reality. AMD will lose that war, no doubt.

"The 745 processor has 'efficeon technology' and 'hypervideo technology'."

"The Opteron 850 has the 'cinematic reality engine', available only from AMD."

All meaningless mumbo jumbo.

Does anyone really care whether 802.11g is being done inside the CPU, inside an Intel or AMD chipset, or some other place on the motherboard?

Petz