Author: Rajen Gupta
Date: 14:08:56 10/03/02
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>>you probably do know that intel has a hammer equivalent in the form of "YAMHILL" >>which they could produce whenever they felt like, if they find the P4 is lagging >>behind. And this will be produced on a 0.09 micron process which agin will put >>AMD between the proverbial Scylla and Charybdes or as the yanks would say >>between a rock and a hard place >>rajen >> >>in any case AMD is in a "lose lose" situation. Go to the <www.businessweek.com> >>to read about AMD's financial problems if you dont believe me. >> >>rajen > >How do you know they could produce it "whenever they like"? Intel's Prescott >will have x86-64 support built into the chip but it will be disabled. and could be enabled whenever they felt like >Plus it's just now getting into the silicon stage. No way it'll be mass produced any time >real soon. > >Also take a look at this... >http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2002/06/020620_Intel_To_Dump_Yamhill/020620_Intel_To_Dump_Yamhill.htm vans hardware like the company it is talking about is already singing its death song. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5141 >Also let me remind you. There are *MANY* single/dual/quad opteron/clawhammer >systems out there now that AMD is sending to developers and various companies >(like Dell) to evaluate. my answer to you is; have a look at this http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=5696 > >I do hope Intel comes out with something that can match the Hammer at least a >while after the Hammer is released. The more AMD and Intel have cpu price wars >with eachother the more we (consumers) win. :) I entirely agree with you about price wars and consumer choice and the last few yrs have been good; but AMD as everyone knows has tremendous expertise in snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. It has been demonstrating this trick pretty convincingly this year and about to about to repeat this trick-and for the last time i'm afraid-and we'll soon return to the ers of £1000 processors with 1 speed upgrade evry year rajen
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