Soldato
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What I mean is that all of the present innovation seems to have come from careful thinking by AMD and their present suffering seems to be unwarranted in many ways, I mean look at the following:
32/64 bit hybrid CPU's, Intel were for a move to 64 bit only but scraped it in favour of AMD's approach eventually.
Dual cores, AMD were first to market were they not.
Lower power consumption, again AMD were there first.
IPCC, AMD delivered more efficient and hence more powerful cpu's
AMD delivered real competition that Intel had to respond to and if it was not for their industry presence, available finance and muscle they would not have succeeded as well in responding as they have done.
Integrated memory controller, not sure about this one but it did matter at some point in time.
All C2D CPU's are a direct response to AMD efforts to get better cpu's to market and without AMD we would still be looking at power hungry 4 Ghz low clock cycle 32 bit only processors from Intel.
And one more thing, native quad core as oppossed to hybrid qud core from Intel, who will be thinking of getting the new native quad core AMD cpu's if they are good enough over Intels hybrids to get their balance back. You see in the mainstream the AMD 5600+ is just as good as a Intel 6400, ok it may not overclock as well but price performance is similar in many ways but it would appear that Intels marketing machine seems to be telling us otherwise.
32/64 bit hybrid CPU's, Intel were for a move to 64 bit only but scraped it in favour of AMD's approach eventually.
Dual cores, AMD were first to market were they not.
Lower power consumption, again AMD were there first.
IPCC, AMD delivered more efficient and hence more powerful cpu's
AMD delivered real competition that Intel had to respond to and if it was not for their industry presence, available finance and muscle they would not have succeeded as well in responding as they have done.
Integrated memory controller, not sure about this one but it did matter at some point in time.
All C2D CPU's are a direct response to AMD efforts to get better cpu's to market and without AMD we would still be looking at power hungry 4 Ghz low clock cycle 32 bit only processors from Intel.
And one more thing, native quad core as oppossed to hybrid qud core from Intel, who will be thinking of getting the new native quad core AMD cpu's if they are good enough over Intels hybrids to get their balance back. You see in the mainstream the AMD 5600+ is just as good as a Intel 6400, ok it may not overclock as well but price performance is similar in many ways but it would appear that Intels marketing machine seems to be telling us otherwise.