Replies to post #17431 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[wbmw]

UND, Re: Intel may be free to use AMD64, but who in the company would want to champion the cause? You'd look like a traitor. Company politics does matter here. It would take someone at the very top to turn the ship around. I imagine that 99% of the employees at Intel, as at any other big company, are too busy protecting their own backsides to do something like that. It's very, very hard to put your neck that close to the chopping block -- especially so with Intel's reputed corporate culture.

Intel's corporate culture is "only the paranoid survive". That's not consistent with your vision.

[jhalada]

UpNDown,

Intel is responsive, when it needs to be. They did 180 on DDR, on response to the sub-$1000 PCs frist with Celeron, later with Timna, they did another 180 by canceling Timna, along with getting rid of Rambus support.

Itanium is much bigger blunder (as far as dollars down the drain) to reverse - well, blunder as far as how it would look to the outside world. Internally, people understand the risks and rewards of cornering the market, and Itanium was (and still is) a worthy endeavor, in this sense. As was Rambus.

Joe