NoNoBadDog! wrote:
"Isaac W." wrote in message
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The stuff I heard about AMD in the late 90's might still come back to
haunt them. I know they had issues getting into ceartain
manufacturing settings. Issues with excel and other stuff of the
like. If AMD has shaped up and not had anymore parity errors of the
olden days then YES They could forseeable start ripping into intel
badly. Remeber RDRAM (Rimms) and jumping on the pentium pro arcitechure
too
soon? Intel has the problem with "were right because we're the
biggest and not because it the best" With that attitude it's not a
matter of IF but WHEN they start hurting.(they are not hurting as of
yet) They are sucking as far as taking care of employees as well as
rampant political BS getting in the way of engineering and making
this stuff work.


None of what you bring up has any bearing. AMD has FAB36 up and
running, and it is state of the art. It is superior to any of the
fabs that Intel has. RDRAM failed because of marketing. Intel is
fat and lazy, and will ultimately take the easy route, and I predict
that they never will catch up completely.

Intel hangs on to the Northbridge FSB, does not make true dual core,
refuses to move the memory controller on-die, etc. Intel hung on to
hyperthreading far too long...it was never supported. Intel just
does not have a clue. Until June of 2005, their whitepaper was still
claiming no one wanted 64 bit processors.

I heard something about this up and coming company called Transmeta making
some neato low-power mobile chip... sounds exciting!

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Phil, Squid-in-Training