Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[bobs10]

What BS. You mean back in the days when AMD couldn't get anyone to produce MoBos because of fear of INTC. Have you forgotten about the white box MoBos with no identification of the supplier on them because the supplier was afraid of retaliation by INTC?

Well your right times have changed. Because of the way INTC has treated the chipset and MoBo guys I'm sure most would love the chance to spit on INTC's grave. The biggest change between then and now is the amount of support AMD now has from the hardware/software community. Heck the 939 chipset/mobos were out 6 to 9 months before the first chip from AMD even appeared. AMD is interested in pursuing a Win Win policy with its suppliers in contrast with the monopolistic, avaricious policies of INTC. AMD works with its suppliers and doesn't stab them in the back when it becomes convenient, something I'm sure the suppliers are well aware of.

One of the biggest problems INTC has is a lack of cross-fertilization due to everything being built in house. Current INTC policies are only going to cause more of the same. Besides that no one will work with INTC for fear that INTC will eat them alive. AMD on the other hand has no problems creating mutual benefit groups like the HT consortium. On top of it all INTC hasn’t had a single original idea, that was worth a damm, since the P3.

But probably the best way to show the difference between then and now is to look at how much support for AMD64 there is over IPF. I know your going to claim that 6 million code writers are busy writing Itanium compatible software, but it sure doesn't look that way to me. Even INTC is now admitting that Itanium progress has slowed since the announcement of EMT64. If anyone writes software for Itanium in the future you can bet it will only be after they have written the code for AMD64.

You right things have changed, INTC has become the pariah and AMD now wears the white hat within the support community.