Scumbria:
Re: "I'm inclined to agree with your assessment about the near term prospects for AMD. When Thunderbird appears, Intel is going to be struggling to keep up at the entry level, much less be competitive at the high end."
Comment: The Athy has won numerous awards from knowledgeable judges in its first 8 months owing to its technical excellence...Market acceptance, which normally lags acceptance by the technical intelligentsia, is only in its infant stage...Just when Dresden comes on stream, the Athy will explode up the marketing curve, and assuming Intel cannot resolve its formidable top-end PWeeIII production problems and assuming Willy faces normal, maybe even impossible hurdles, before getting to retail, Athy market maturity may be some 2 years out! One cannot review the Athy accomplishments since August(i.e from 500 MHz to 1000 MHz with apparent ease) and not be excited about AMD's prospects for the foreseeable future particularly when compared to the paucity of accomplishments of its primary competitor, the PWeeIII which appears to be currently stuck at 733 MHz...Tremendous performance by AMD, to take the microprocessor crown away from a company 50 times its size!
Yep, I'm excited about the future prospects for AMD who have the fastest microprocessor in the world...glad to hear you share in this excitement, Scumbria...after all, so far the Athy has lived up to all the poteential and more that you lucidly articulated only about one year ago! (It'd be kind of neat if AMD broke $100 on June 14, one year after the Dirk Meyer presentation of the Athy) |
