Re: because we don't want users to spend money on technology that doesn't get used at all. Yes, there is a small percentage of desktop users that will see benefit from quad-core. That's why we made the Quad FX platform.
This is probably the biggest example of all of how much of a sophist this man can be. Almost everyone in the world+dog knows that Intel's quad core is less expensive, lower power, and offers more performance than Quad FX, so Richard's reasoning doesn't even make sense: people don't need quad core, so AMD is going to give them dual socketed dual core for higher costs and lower performance?? LOL.
But even given that, I wonder how many 'Droids out there believe every word he says...?