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To: wbmw who wrote (247230)	2/1/2008 5:27:47 PM
From: smooth2o	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

That's funny. You are, of course, right. And, that's the way it should be, I guess. After all, Intel supplies 80+ percent of the WORLD'S microprocessors, only because they have to allow AMD to supply "something". Imagine if you will, that Intel were an AMD or AMD was left with the responsibility to supply the world. Not a pretty sight, huh? Smooth

To: wbmw who wrote (247230)	2/1/2008 6:17:13 PM
From: gvatty	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

wbmw, you are absolutely wrong. What about AMD breaking the 1 ghz barrier? The early AMD Opteron servers? All I heard from Intel people was AMD won't get there first, no one will ever want an AMD server, it won't be able to be qualified by software manufacturers, no tier one oem will offer them. For a relatively long time in the computer chip field a small company named AMD manufactured computer chips that beat the snot out of Intel chips. AMD did this with a fraction of the research and development budget of Intel's, far less resources, manpower, designers, 1 - 200mm fab, inferior process technology, competing with a monopolist and small cash reserves. AMD opteron servers weren't under a microscope? Hell, the xenon servers probably had more errata than the opteron servers and Conroe probably has more errata than Phenom. But I never see the Intel people on this board give AMD its fair share of credit. When AMD stock and products are on top, I only hear silence from the Intel people on the board. When AMD is down all I hear is gloating, criticism, and insults towards AMD.