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If AMD bowed out of processor production?

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Eatchipz

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Would another company step up to the market?

Are would Intel just dominate the market for the foreseeable future?

Opinions?
 
Over time another company may appear, but Intel would go totally unchallenged for quite a while. Prices would skyrocket and it would hurt the customer. Better hope AMD doesn't drop. Still, if the Phenom II is done right and marketed right, there's no reason for AMD to drop cpu production.
 
amd are richer than Intel now so chances of them dropping off the face of the earth are non existant. Ok Nuclear war taking out the mideast, germany and the US would see AMD cease to exist, other than that, no. Owned by trillionaires now, doesn't really get any more secure frankly. As for prices, its not in Intels interest, even without AMD, to make chips unaffordable. Its better for them to sell 1 £200 chip every 2 years, than make the so expensive people buy 1 £700 every decade. Cheaper they are, more that buy, the more that buy, the faster companies make use of more cpu power as you have to have the majority of your market at level X to make it worth making software Y that can use level X. So the more chips they sell, the more software increases in power to use the chips, the more demand is generated for more powerful cpu's, etc, etc. If they tripled the price of every chip they'd see profits drop massively. some rising prices yes, all their "we'll make this chip $50 just to see AMD sweat" chips won't happen, but other than that, no.
 
As said already, if AMD pulled out Intel would have no competition and prices would probably double - with the consumer having pretty much no choice than to buy intel.

If next gen AMD turns out to be a stunner though, they wont be going anywhere.
 
VIA Nano, x86 64bit single core (duel core is out next year).

Benches a little better then intel atom, but its aimed at mobile market so wont be a desktop version any time soon.

Doubt they will move to desktop/server market as intel will run them out of buisness for trying.

*edit* vista SP2 now supports these chips too.
 
One of two things would happen, either:

a) Another chip manufacturer would step into the gap in the market
b) Intel would get smashed up by anti-trust laws.
 
Intel wont let anyone have x86 lisences, which is why no one else can make chips to compete lol. (VIA where like AMD when they got the licence x86)

My real money would be on those chinese chips, that simulate x86 code. They a gen or 2 behind intel atm, but they getting heavy investment from the chinese gov so have the potential to do well. Asuming microsoft support them with new vesions of windows ;)
 
Well gpus are starting to be pretty derned powerful. We just need a team of a few thousand supergenius programmers to come up with a nice x86 emulator for them and get it to run efficiently.
 
AMD is going nowhere anytime soon sorry to break the hearts of a few intel fanboys i know the title of the thread may have got you all warm and fuzzy :).
 
drunkenmaster said:
amd are richer than Intel now
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What?...

AMD are in pretty poor shape at the moment, having lost a lot of market share to Core2. They have huge amounts of debt and their dominance with Opteron seems to be waning also, we'll have to see how Shanghai deals with Harpertown.
If things get much worse, they would just spin off most of their assets and become a fabless and IP generating company like Nvidia.
This is a perfectly viable system of operation and seems increasingly preferable, despite the German government throwing money at them to stay in Dresden.

Intel are very much into their vertical integration, investing tens of billions every generation or so retooling and building new fabs.
 
im not sure exactly what happend but AMD has become a part of a huge syndicate thingy and has handed over their fabrication plants?? but is now part of a multi trillion dollar collective thingy

so basically AMD are loaded compared to intel now.

someone else will know the proper details, just google it lol.
 
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