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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: crazyoldman who wrote (118836)7/2/2000 9:59:10 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (2) of 1578705
 
CrazyMan, <How much more solid than "100% solid" can a platform get?>

How have you determined that your systems are "100%
solid"? Did you try to turn off air conditioning in your
office (or lab)? Did you try to change supplier
for your PS? Supplier for your memory? Tried to get
full load of 768Mbytes? Loaded all your PCI slots
with heavy-consuming cards?

I agree that there is "mindset" and "reliable supplier"
reasons. Fortunately for AMD, Intel recently did all
it can to overthrow themselves from the position
of "reliable compatible" supplier. For example, my
current office computer Dell Optiplex G110-600/133
frequently (every other day) crashes with message
something like "..application referenced memory at
blah:blah, the memory cannot be read"...
Unfortunately, AMD appears to be not capable
to take advantage of this situation.

<AMD's products are price/performance most-bang-for-the-buck leaders>.

Maybe, as one component of a system. This is apparently
not enough. For serious business you have to be
a "system leader" - define directions and standards,
drive and guide software development,
be able to "influence" the industry. Although Intel
has embarassed themselves by failing to provide
basic functionality for their new core platforms,
they are still present big in defining, driving
and supporting industry (and proprietary <g>)
standards.
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