Mary,
There are a lot of other aspects to an automobile other than top speed and as we have learned on this thread from Tony,
Paul, and others, there are a lot more to a chip than its pure speed - there is also reliability, scalability, market
segmentation, compatibility (with motherboards), support, manufacturability and a host of other issues.
Thanks for the compliment. We all educate each other, and certainly you are a big contributor in that regard.
I woke up this morning thinking of something that's been running around in my head lately. It's pretty obvious to me, by their posts, that the AMD camp loves only one thing more than seeing their beloved AMD stock go up. That, of course, is to see INTC go down. They're not all that way, but a good many are. Now, I've spent most of my career at companies that compete (very closely) with IBM. Every time business got rough and someone started complaining about IBM and their tactics, maybe predatory, someone from our upper management would step and and say 'stop bitching about IBM. They have made, and continue to make, the market we're in. Without them, we would not even be in existence. If we can't compete, it's our fault, because they have put a big standard out there that everyone can make money from.'
Same with Intel, and Microsoft. Motorola, National, TI, IBM, Xilog, NEC, none of these companies could set any kind of a standard in PC CPU chips. It would be a totally splintered market without Intel, no part of it would be much worth copying, and AMD would probably only be making comm, flash, FPGA, and other non-MPU type chips. Oops, that might make them better off.
Anyone that complains about an Intel, or the old IBM, that puts a huge umbrella out there for others to huddle under and make a lot money, is not seeing things very clearly, to me.
Tony |
