AMD: Intel is desperate
AMD spokesperson, Damon Muzny (<--Click the link to view the full interview):
" Intel's complex and inefficient architecture with large "compensation caches" made 65nm necessary to bring die sizes back down on Pentium. And this is just one aspect of the big picture. So when you hear the competition crowing about starting a new, smaller design process sooner, understanding the big picture gives a more clear view of what is really going on.
Here's another good example. Intel has been trying to take the focus of their current product portfolio with Conroe demonstration stunts. So while I can't really comment about a competitor's product probably which won't be available for 6 or 9 months, I will say this much about their tactics: it's not like their typical "AMD who?" approach. Clearly we've forced our competitor to respond us. Every time they stress future products they are simply admitting their current products aren't competitive so customers shouldn't buy them. That's just an irrational and desperate move for them. Their claims of future architectural competitiveness largely assume AMD is standing still, and we're not. In fact, as they work to catch up to us, we'll move ahead with our own innovations. So the big picture is Intel in crisis-mode, reacting to AMD's leadership. It shouldn't come as a surprise. "
Muzny also indicated that AMD will transition 50% of wafer starts at FAB36 to 65nm by early 2007.
posted by Sharikou, Ph. D. @ 4/20/2006 08:54:00 AM
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The fallout from Intel's lack of talent and poor choices will be a hard hit on the entire industry. So much of Intel's poor technology will have to be discarded. So many customers will be stuck with obsolete machines that are not worth the electricity it takes to run them.
Take, for example, BTX. This is a flawed design that is solely suited for Intel's heat monster processors.
To support these infernos, the entire system architecture is compromised. Instead of delivering any positive value to the market, BTX is just a band-aid for Intel.
With BTX, we don't have a cheaper case, a quieter case, a more flexible case, a lower power case, or any other value proposition.
BTX is essentially Intel's move to sabotage the entire PC industry to keep AMD from moving further ahead.
[aside: Just ask yourself... Why don't we see any good case designs from Dell? From a company that spends more money on R&D than Apple? It is because Dell foolishly chooses to be Intel's puppet and force crap like BTX on its customers.]
Across every product line and product group at Intel, you see near zero value delivery to the market. Just bad technology being pushed on the market. Desperate moves by a company that no longer has the ability to innovate.
And so the world is waiting for AMD to pick up more of the duties of industry leadership and will reward AMD appropriately. It will not be very much longer before Intel has no role whatsoever in the PC industry.
The more the PC industry moves away from Intel, the stronger it will be. Intel has restricted the evolution of the PC industry for too long.
[You can bet on the day Intel is out of the PC industry future, there will be a big smile from Billy G.]
Japan, EU and Korean governments have raided Intel's offices for good reasons. Intel is a reactionary force that is working very hard to thwart the advance of computing technology and civilization
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