Replies to post #52920 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[sgolds]

chipguy, yes, it is very much like niche, only spelled phonetically.

According to this reference, 'nitch' is the preferred pronounciation, 'neesh' is the less common one:

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=niche

We'll have to keep watching IPF to see what transpires. Over the years I've been holding to my prediction that it would be a high end server niche product, disagreeing with the partisans predicting its demise and the partisans predicting it would take over everything.

Both sides are getting closer and closer to my position as time goes by. Even you don't still propose Itanium as a workstation product in the near future! Only the most die-hard AMD partisans are predicting IPF's imminent demise.

So it goes. AMD partisans underestimated the importance of HP's commitment just as Intel partisans underestimated market resistance combined with the emergence of competitive 64-bit alternatives.

Remember the quote from Gandhi:

The truth is the truth even if it is a minority of one.