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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (278323)3/5/2006 7:39:11 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1585293
 
It is my belief that processor architectures have matured. Any improvements from here on out are going to be very minor or require a lot out of software, more than what software developers are willing to put up with.

What about Moore's Law?

It is also my belief that because of this, the game of leapfrog between Intel and AMD will come to an end. And that's bad news for AMD, because I think AMD needs some sort of architectural advantage in order to survive. Otherwise, what does AMD have going for it, other than being a perennial second source?

That's true if AMD's chip architecture is no better than INTC's, but that's not what I am hearing. The Opteron is supposed to be much better than anything INTC has.

Of course, under your thesis, if Pentium five leapfrogs the improvements in Opteron, then INTC will have won the architectural war.

Then again, AMD no longer has Jerry around its neck. I think this one may be too close to call. ;-)

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