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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (743718)	10/3/2013 2:38:16 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575429

Bentway, Semiconductors are just considered commodities now, Ten. Funny how you posted an article from 2001 about the "coming chronic overcapacity" of silicon. Since then, new silicon fabs have been built, process technologies have advanced several generations, and the world is demanding more silicon than ever before. Commoditization has always been nipping at the heels of the semiconductor industry. Intel has done a fantastic job staying one step ahead, even in light of them missing the mobile device craze. All you guys do now is reduce the feature size, which has led you to add multiple cores. What has Intel done in the last ten years that is cutting edge, high tech? Nothing. Are you typing your posts on an old 2003 Pentium 4 or Athlon? Didn't think so. Do you think "cloud computing" would continue expanding without ever-increasing performance from Xeon? Didn't think so. You're talking like a curmudgeon. Tenchusatsu