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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: hmaly who wrote (119439)7/6/2000 1:49:53 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1579337
 
Re: "EP; if that is the reason Intel entered the chipset business, Intel is failing dismally with their i8** series failures. Personally, I believe Intel is controlling the chipsets for the same reason Intel is always changing busses etc; which is to keep control of market and not let competitors get a hold. Via already has 50 - 60 percent of PIII chipset market so why try to control what you obviously lost control of. Willy chipsets will be another story, and I believe Intel will once again use chipsets to close off the competition by limiting licenseing as opposed to AMD which clearly is asking every chipset man. to produce a chipset. Time will tell but historically, open standards have overwhelmed closed standards."

Perhaps you missed my post where I said Intel dominated the Chipset business until the RamBus disaster. The reason Intel changes busses, which they haven't done for about 5 years despite your claim they are "always" doing it, is to advance technology. AMD did the same thing when they went to the supposedly "superior" EV6 architecture. I don't remember you complaining then AMD did this. Do you think they should have stayed with the old socket7? BTW it's amusing to note that the "superion" EV6 has yet to yield a single dual processor Athlon system while Intel's "inferior" P6 bus is merrily supporting vast numbers of SMP systems. So good does it work and so seemlessly for the designer that it's far and away the world's price/performance leader while AMD's superior architecture is still MIA a year after the Athlon introduction. Intel licenses this architecture to other chipset vendors so your claim that it is a closed system is not correct.

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