Recent content by imported_smyrgl

Why does everyone seem to hold this misconception? Even if we grant Intel monopoly status without AMD (which is silly because Intel competes in the server arena with IBM/Sun and in the embedded space with a whole host of companies), a monopoly is not illegal only anti-competitive practices are...

Believe it or not, I had a much higher opinion of them before that particular thread. I'd gotten into a debate in the past with one of their regulars (scientia) about a few points and although he ignored the rules of logical debate, he at least was consistent and answered points. The most...

Sorry, but what I did wasn't trolling, it was just disagreeing with the prevailing opinion. Trolling would be coming in and making totally unsupported statements, whereas I made sure to backup everything I said with facts and objective data. Not that what I did was that hard. It's a lot...

As the person who was responsible for most of that shitstorm, I find it hillarious that they felt that my posts were so damaging that they felt the need to not only ban me but to erase the record of my posting history. TheGhost's final response to me was especially hilarious since he didn't...

Can anyone say "petty"?

Whatever. At least the stuff I write is borderline coherent. "Not even American"? Tangent much? I don't know what that has to do with anything, but I'm sure a mod can do an IP lookup to show that I'm in Redwood City, CA. Of course what the hell my location has to do with the price of...

And you know what? I've been civil enough to you apoppin despite the fact that you are obviously a raving loon (I've lurked enough on this forum to know that much) but if you want to start hurling accusations about dishonesty go ahead. It's pretty clear who the lunatic is here given your...

Think whatever you want. I'm not going into any more specific details about my background beyond that the company I work for is a startup, is around 70 employees, is in the mobile space, and is completing its third round of financing. As for former companies I've worked for, I would be...

What, proof that this kind of integration can be done without owning the company? Many companies have done this before, most notably MIPS. Give me the criteria for what you want proven and I'll give you a link. And I want to know the NATURE of these job cuts which is why I want the links...

I want a link so I can see exactly what was cut and from where. You have a problem with posting a link?

Link to the 400 ATI employees being cut? As for Fusion, it doesn't necessarily require a "same company" kind of integration, AMD could easily have done this with an external partner.

You are ignoring all the ramifications of your plan such as that it's not just spending $25 million on hardware to give away for free, but that's also $25 million AMD won't receive for selling the product in the first place. Also, I still don't see the tangible benefit of such a giveaway...

Because ATI is still a fully functional separate division of AMD. Yes, they are all one big happy family now, but the point is that if AMD's chip division goes down the tubes, the graphics division (formerly ATI) can still be spun off and survive just fine. Although I'm sure there is some...

Quite right. Realistically, the x2900 isn't a rousing success, but it's not the killer for the ATI division that everyone makes it out to be. AMD's problems have nothing to do with ATI (well aside form the fact that they burned so much money buying them) and ATI is not in bad financial...

Probably, although I don't think anyone is going to like the terms. Like I've said before, AMD just isn't attractive as a whole package.