you...
Yeah I am sure the AMD faithful thought the same when K7
was outclocking Coppermine and Intel brought out P4 with
only Rambus chipsets. Within a year P4 was shipping with
SDRAM and AMD started a string of 9 or 10 money losing
quarters.
me...
Yeah, but AMD was a very different company then. More or less continual mishaps, such as the Rambus fiasco, have helped enable AMD's transition from a one-trick pony into a company that is more than capable of dealing with INTC today, on any level. The Rambus memory issue gave AMD a shot at glory during a time when AMD didn't have either the infrastructure nor the products to take advantage of the situation.
Anyway, as mistakes go Rambus was small potatoes compared to the decision to make Itanium INTC's poster child over X86-64. INTC has been paying for that mistake for at least 3 years now. I can hardly wait for the next major guffaw, as the record seems to indicate that INTC keeps making bigger mistakes in an attempt to fix older ones.
Talking about Coppermine, I always wondered about that name since AMD had the copper interconnects and INTC didn't. I sort of attributed it to another sleaze-bag marketing maneuver by INTC to confuse the buying public.
