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To: JDN who wrote (62386)	12/10/2004 6:05:29 AM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

AMD may not be as good as Intel at cranking speed and introducing new fab processes for existing designs, but they got a continuing stream of improving Athlons and Durons out over the past several years that have done well for them. And of course they put the AMD64/Opteron architecture on the street less than a year after their original target, which is now the best of the best x86 processors, and which Intel, in a wonderful irony, ended up FORCED TO COPY for their STRATEGIC 64-BIT CPU LINE. As for Sun, well, their pathetic SPARC record speaks for itself. Meanwhile, Intel spent the better part of a decade trying to float the Itanic, far and away the most gigantic and remarkable business failure in the history of semiconductors. The reason they can survive it is the same reason (exactly) that Microsoft is now unsinkable despite their near-total lack of innovation and quality, and failures in other lines of business: they live off an ironclad monopoly that IBM thoughtlessly handed them on a silver platter in 1981. AMD has had their foulups like all tech companies but I think they have a pretty bright future. --QS