But this doesn't make sense. Intel always pulled these tactics as far back as anyone can remember. Then the Athlon came along. It was FANTASTIC and it made Intel look foolish. People swarmed to buy it. Then there was the huge misstep of Netburst and again, the Athlon made it look like a second tier offering for most of Netburst's life save for a short Northwood spurt. Then Athlon 64 and X2 dominated for a long time. People bought them. They were awesome CPUs.
My point is, they had good product. Plenty of money for R&D. Then bought ATI. Done for.
EDIT: IMHO and with some strong hindsight
AMD should have left ATI alone. Both companies would have been so much stronger right now.
And to sell their mobile division? Snapdragon? What was the possible thinking there? How short sighted can ANYONE be to sell a very successful design on the CUSP of a mobile computing (smartphone, tablet, netbook) BOOM! It's depressing and almost looks like it was intentionally done to purposefully screw themselves. Self destruction is the order of the day for AMD.
What I wrote seems difficult to refute, though it is true that there were capacity constraints. But question why Intel would stoop so low if AMD were completely constrained anyway? In other words if capacity were going to hamstring AMD anyway, why did Intel do what it did? Food for thought.
Btw, you seem to be interpreting what I wrote to be something else.
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