Replies to post #8511 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[SemiconEng]

As I said, Intel is a much better marketing company than AMD. However, coming from an engineering background, perhaps I have a weakness for the company that tries to succeed with a better product line - while Pentium-M is very good, it represents the end of the x86-32 era. AMD has picked up the torch.


There's nothing wrong with rooting for the underdog, it's human nature. As long as the person doesn't let it blind them to the reality. Whether AMD has a "better" product line is very debatable, since "better" is such a generic term, and means allot of different things to allot of different people. Betamax was considered "Better", but where is it now?

IMO, it appears that the so called AMD torch, is choking on it's lack of fuel. AMD better focus their energy and resources, and concentrate on making sure that torch doesn't fizzle out. With Sep22 intro for Clawhammer, AMD misses the Back To School Season. If AMD also misses this Christmas Season, it could be Torch lights out.

Better get to Clawhammer on time..... Or Else.

Semi

[Elmer Phud]

sgolds

While I think the P4 concept is a cynical attempt to ripoff consumers with high clock rates

I thought you said you spent 20 years as an engineer. Doesn't sound like it here. You imply that Intel designed the uA of the P4 to run at higher clockrates for the single purpose of ripping off the consumer. Frankly that's a dumb statement. The P3 uA was out of gas on the highend and the fact that P4 even kicks Opteron's butt in single processor applications makes your statement look terribly foolish. P4 will scale to 10GHz over it's lifetime and with each process generation the performance advantages become more obvious and your statement becomes more foolish.