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To: dougSF30 who wrote (199638)	5/31/2006 9:49:50 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Re: Relative perf and perf/W of competing products (high-end, and more importantly, sweet-spot) is HARDLY a "few trees" when it comes to the CPU business. It's practically irrelevant. For how long has AMD had a 50 to 100 watt power advantage and up to a 50% performance advantage? And what difference did it make until they started putting some serious capacity into place and sued Intel for extorting customers? What's Core's power advantage going to be? 15 watts? Zero watts? What's Core's performance advantage going to be? 20% in a few cases? I'm hard pressed at work to detect any difference between my 4800+ X2 and the Opteron 146 it replaced. Things either happen just about instantly or they're waiting on network or disk - just like on the old Opteron. Dual core doesn't seem to make any difference, either. This isn't good news for AMD, but it's worse news for Intel. The biggest risk to AMD is that there will be a brutal price war, but AMD is in a lot better shape to face such conditions than Intel is. AMD will be able to supply nearly half the CPU market with barely 10,000 employees (remember that Spansion's gone). Intel will have to pay 75,000 to supply the other half (I deducted 25,000 of their 100,000 employees to account for their flash and other non-CPU businesses). AMD is able to do with 9,860 employees what Intel needs nearly 100,000 to do. I think Intel is totally screwed, and that AMD will reap the benefits of gaining significant control in the CPU market.

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