AMD: Fighting the unbeatable foe

[Phynaz]

I particularly like the posts saying Anand should be sued for causing AMD shareholders financial losses.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: Phynaz
I particularly like the posts saying Anand should be sued for causing AMD shareholders financial losses.

Yup. Anand's stage name is "Jim Cramer".

 

[piesquared]

Yep, good ol' Anand still towin' the line for Intel with yet another article on i7. Meanwhile all promised ATI and AMD reviews are MIA. But their on the way! Been on the way for about 6 months now actually. Who can say with a straight face that this guy is impartial and fair?

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: piesquared
Yep, good ol' Anand still towin' the line for Intel with yet another article on i7. Meanwhile all promised ATI and AMD reviews are MIA. But their on the way! Been on the way for about 6 months now actually. Who can say with a straight face that this guy is impartial and fair?

Do you even know how Anandtech got it's start? :disgust:

Did you happen to notice the last 5 AT video card reviews are AMD/ATi?

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: piesquared
Yep, good ol' Anand still towin' the line for Intel with yet another article on i7. Meanwhile all promised ATI and AMD reviews are MIA. But their on the way! Been on the way for about 6 months now actually. Who can say with a straight face that this guy is impartial and fair?

Here you go:

AMD Financial Analyst Day from November 13th.
AMD Shainghai Tests, also from November 13th.

There isn't really anything else to report that I can think of, and I have been anxiously awaiting the Phenom II's release. I guess I would like to see them get a server chip, and try to run it at expected Deneb speeds to give us an idea of how they would perform like they did with Barcelona. Although, to be honest, I would just like to see the real thing.

 

[piesquared]

I wasn't going to get any further into it, cuz my internet sucks but hang on, i'll be back with some quotes for ya.


[edit]

Well, I guess if anyone is really that interested they can go look themselves, but I doubt too many are. I've read the promises of reviews that never materialize, and I know they're there, but I could run to Anand's servers and retrieve them faster than this shit sattelite internet can. And honestly, it's not that important to me, other than I look forward to reading something that never shows up. But that's alright, there's other sites out there that do print things i'm interested in, although becomming increasingly rarer.
As for motive, it's pretty simple really, but this obviously isn't the crowd to go into that with. Anway, have a good one.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

1st of all, sorry you have to be on satellite.

But I don't get your comment about AT's lack of AMD/ATi reviews... the last 5 video card articles have been Radeon.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: piesquared
Yep, good ol' Anand still towin' the line for Intel with yet another article on i7. Meanwhile all promised ATI and AMD reviews are MIA. But their on the way! Been on the way for about 6 months now actually. Who can say with a straight face that this guy is impartial and fair?

Not sure what you think this line of thinking is going to accomplish. Whether your inferences are true or not, do you really want to be the newbie poster who gets to carry around the badge/reputation here that says "I sh!t where I sleep"?

You aren't the first poster to misplace their frustrations over the lack/quality of AT reviews in these forums and lay blame with the review's author or the site's owner. But you need to stay focused on your message (lack/quality of reviews) and not fall into the trap of taking it personal or making it personal by attacking and attempting to discredit the author's and owner's.

Just saying think before you post too many more of these kinds of posts, you are standing on a precipice of deciding what kind of reputation you have around here and its a decision that really ought to be taken seriously if you expect us to take you and your future posts seriously.

 

[hans007]

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle

Originally posted by: piesquared
Yep, good ol' Anand still towin' the line for Intel with yet another article on i7. Meanwhile all promised ATI and AMD reviews are MIA. But their on the way! Been on the way for about 6 months now actually. Who can say with a straight face that this guy is impartial and fair?

Do you even know how Anandtech got it's start? :disgust:

Did you happen to notice the last 5 AT video card reviews are AMD/ATi?

anand you can never say was a intel fanboy or anything.


when he first launched his site he used to post on usenet, and his nick was like something like cyrix686pr150.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Well, I think the 2 areas AMD can even touch Intel would be the Mobil PC arena (ow power consumption etc) and Servers. Intel's Xenon servers are ok, but AMD's CPUs have great strengths in server related applications.

 

[Phynaz]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
AMD's CPUs have great strengths in server related applications.

While AMD servers are still strong, one i7 box I'm running is taking the same load as four Sun v490's running Java applications in multiple Websphere containers.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: Phynaz

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
AMD's CPUs have great strengths in server related applications.

While AMD servers are still strong, one i7 box I'm running is taking the same load as four Sun v490's running Java applications in multiple Websphere containers.

I was long convinced that SUN/AMD would merge someday.

It made so much sense for a lot technology reasons (given that TI was the foundry, it was my business to know those reasons) as well as synergies the two could work from in their efforts to span top-to-bottom marketspace against Intel.

 

[piesquared]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: piesquared
Yep, good ol' Anand still towin' the line for Intel with yet another article on i7. Meanwhile all promised ATI and AMD reviews are MIA. But their on the way! Been on the way for about 6 months now actually. Who can say with a straight face that this guy is impartial and fair?

Not sure what you think this line of thinking is going to accomplish. Whether your inferences are true or not, do you really want to be the newbie poster who gets to carry around the badge/reputation here that says "I sh!t where I sleep"?

You aren't the first poster to misplace their frustrations over the lack/quality of AT reviews in these forums and lay blame with the review's author or the site's owner. But you need to stay focused on your message (lack/quality of reviews) and not fall into the trap of taking it personal or making it personal by attacking and attempting to discredit the author's and owner's.

Just saying think before you post too many more of these kinds of posts, you are standing on a precipice of deciding what kind of reputation you have around here and its a decision that really ought to be taken seriously if you expect us to take you and your future posts seriously.

Oh, i'm fully aware of the dangers and implications of my post, but just couldn't keep my mouth shut any longer, hard as I tried. And besides, when I said Anand, it was a general inferance to the site in general. What put me over the edge though, is when I remembered Bingo regularily visiting the AMD section at XS promoting the upcomming DFI review. Well, you'd have to put upcomming in context there. I think that was 3 or 4 months ago.
Anyway, it's all good now after partaking in a cool crisp Bud.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: soccerballtux

Originally posted by: taltamir
the interesting thing is that intel is an american company.. AMD is also an american company but it is rapidly being bought out by saudi arabia. And china is getting there with their own x86 CPU, the dragon3 chip. (the first two dragons were non x86).
AMD cannot die because other countries realize the absurdity of letting the USA own their tech market, heck I would expect more countries to make their own CPUs ASAP.

There was an article on /. about the dragon3 chip, lots of informed responses from people who have looked all into it, apparently it's a huge joke plagued with problems.

The national security angle is always over-rated by the public domain. Dragon is not a national security item for China, its a PR piece.

Were China to have their own MPU for national security affairs then to be blunt we humble folks in the public domain quite simply will never hear of it. (as damaging as that may be to our desire to want to believe we know everything about everything)

national security =! top secret and used by the government.
Having metal detectors in airports is a form of national security that EVERYONE knows about.

As for the dragon chip being... problematic... that doesn't change the fact that china WANTS to domestically manufacture their own computers. And aquiring a company like VIA or AMD will solve all their design problems (they ARE working from scratch here)