AMD makes whine out of sour grapes

[OldSpooky]

Intel's "Centrino" technology is an attempt to use its "unfair position" in the marketplace to lock people into inferior technology, AMD said. It hoped its customers wouldn't be "bullied" into using this technology.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7258

This is just hilarious... I want AMD to show me an energy efficient CPU, chipset, and wireless mobile platform of their manufacture that gets better than 5 hrs of battery life and allows for slimmer thin and light notebooks.

I just wish they'd get moving on the dam Athlon 64 chips... we've been waiting how long now??? :disgust: I remember reading on Anandtech that they'd be out in August 2001, so where's the beef?

 

[Swanny]

Athlon 64 will start shipping in March and ship in volume in April.

And AMD has just started to intro their thin and light notebook chips. They also recently aquired a wireless technology firm (Alchemy). Give them some time and maybe they'll have a good notebook offering for you. Right now they're focusing on getting Hammer out the door.

 

[spaceman]

i dunno, they are broke as a joke but i still like AMD.
the xp line will suit me fine for the forseeable future

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Swanny
Athlon 64 will start shipping in March and ship in volume in April.

And AMD has just started to intro their thin and light notebook chips. They also recently aquired a wireless technology firm (Alchemy). Give them some time and maybe they'll have a good notebook offering for you. Right now they're focusing on getting Hammer out the door.

 

[OldSpooky]

Give them some time

Ok... so here's the situation:

Apple has superb thin and light + wireless today, no question about it.

Intel will have it in March.

AMD has nothing except revisions of 'mobile' Athlons that are just repackaged in a thinner flip chip. It'll be years before they get a Centrino competitor out (if at all). They don't have time. They need revenue.