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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 259.65+2.3%Jan 23 9:30 AM EST

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To: Gopher Broke who wrote (28479)2/15/2001 1:29:40 AM
From: Charles RRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
<The thing about a transport, its not much good if it can't transport anywhere except home base. As with virtually all technological innovation, it is not the best design that wins but the one adopted by the most people. >

True. LDT may become an industry standard - high volume one at that.

<AMD's non-proprietary attitude to LDT, has scored them a big win here. >

Yes.

<Contrasts with Intel refusing to license the P4 bus architecture to the very chipset manufacturers they needed to help with promotion of the P4. >

What Intel lacks in charm will be made up by sheer market momentum. I will take a bet, if you want, that Intel's LDT equivalent (SCP, I think it is called) will ship in more multiprocessor systems than LDT.

Chuck
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