Well, consider this:
AMD's fate really lies in the hands of Dell, HP<>Comaq, Gateway, Sony, and every other system manufacturer. The people who buy a CPU judging it by benchmarks and ratings are a small minority. If AMD is below Intel for awhile it won't really matter cause manufacturers will still have a few AMD solutions. Things look good for AMD too, they're processors are almost common in prebuilt systems now, people have faith in them and that doesn't disappear with the production of a single paltry CPU. Intel didn't lose too much faith when they realised the Celeron, even though it was a piece of crap manufacturers used it becasue it was the low cost solution. What saddens me is that I see more people using Athlons than they do Durons, the Duron is great processor for the money, remember the days of OCing a 600 Duron to 1Ghz, try that with a Celeron. I am getting off topic so I will conclude with this: AMD and Intel are both HUGE companies, they have money, they have researchers and they also have spies. Both companies spy on each other I am quite sure, so neither one can really produce something that will blow the other out of the water. The Northwood and the Thoroughbred/Hammer will compete with each other and neither will be very different from the other.
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Sometimes when talking about competing manufacturers i forget whether I'm in a AMD vs. Intel thread or an ATI vs. NVidia thread.
AMD's fate really lies in the hands of Dell, HP<>Comaq, Gateway, Sony, and every other system manufacturer. The people who buy a CPU judging it by benchmarks and ratings are a small minority. If AMD is below Intel for awhile it won't really matter cause manufacturers will still have a few AMD solutions. Things look good for AMD too, they're processors are almost common in prebuilt systems now, people have faith in them and that doesn't disappear with the production of a single paltry CPU. Intel didn't lose too much faith when they realised the Celeron, even though it was a piece of crap manufacturers used it becasue it was the low cost solution. What saddens me is that I see more people using Athlons than they do Durons, the Duron is great processor for the money, remember the days of OCing a 600 Duron to 1Ghz, try that with a Celeron. I am getting off topic so I will conclude with this: AMD and Intel are both HUGE companies, they have money, they have researchers and they also have spies. Both companies spy on each other I am quite sure, so neither one can really produce something that will blow the other out of the water. The Northwood and the Thoroughbred/Hammer will compete with each other and neither will be very different from the other.
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Sometimes when talking about competing manufacturers i forget whether I'm in a AMD vs. Intel thread or an ATI vs. NVidia thread.
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