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Mutantius
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| Posted: Mon, 24th Jul 2006 15:46 Post subject: |
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Old news? Pah! This is the offical "its happening" thread biatch..
As for AMD and the "why are they behind intel" I agree with what kosmiq is saying to some extent. The fact is that Intel has the money to shove into marketing, this is something AMD either doesn't have, or does not want to put into marketing. Lets also not forget AMD's lack of production plants, something which Intel is certainly not lacking. Then there is the research end of things, which again comes down to money.
Intel pulls money in from sectors most folk don't even consider, then pours that money into the public sector to pull back what it lost to AMD over the past few years.. Currently Intel has AMD beat all over the shop (faster, cheaper desktop chips, better brand, far more trusted..), AMD needed something to pull it back and I'm pretty sure this will do the job.
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| Posted: Mon, 24th Jul 2006 15:56 Post subject: |
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Intel makes it's profit on the b2b market. This market values other criterias than the privat sector. Reliability, long term availability (very important for imaging), compatibility (with other hardware like diagnostic cards in laboratory equipments etc.). On all these points, Intel has a very good reputation for at least a decade.
I can see it at work, each year we check the new pc's our company is going to buy, and so far Intel has always won the race without any doubts. I can remeber we once had some AMD's with VIA and nforce chipsets. VIA's drivers were still crap like they used to be years ago, and the nforce chipsets came with that firewall wich made the pc not deployable for us. It was just no alternative. And we only order about 1000 pc each year, for really big companys it's even more clear.
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| Posted: Mon, 24th Jul 2006 16:06 Post subject: |
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Will the merge give AMD the needed money to push back into the b2b market? How will the future chipsets go, will NVIDIA still provide support for AMD now they're essentially compeating?
It wouldnt supprise me if this allowed AMD to push into the public market further, I'll look forward to seeing AMD adverts on the TV..
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The main reason why AMD did buy them is because of the chipsets. AMD's decision to stop the production of almost all chipsets was their biggest mistake ever. They had nothing to compete againts Intel's Centrino and all the other high quality chipsets.
