Kevin Krewell
Kevin Krewell
money produce scheme useful
One is as a money scheme and the other is to produce useful technology.
total win
The 1-GHz was a total win for AMD.
designs game road
Most designs take years. But it was very important for them to get back in the game and have a road map.
clock driven due extra increases increasing last offer performance power slower
Just increasing clock frequency, which has driven much of the performance increases over the last decade, has become unattractive due to the extra power requirements. Slower clocked dual-core processors can still offer performance increases with multi-threaded applications.
advantage intel later performance start tries year
Fundamentally, we think AMD will have the performance advantage through most of this year. But later in the year and into 2007 it will start to get interesting as Intel tries to go head-to-head with AMD again.
balance both bunch details higher ibm lots says sounds stripped
IBM says they can balance both and still get these higher speeds, but there's still lots of details yet to be revealed. It sounds great, but you could have stripped down a whole bunch of functionality to get that higher speed, which wouldn't be so great.
close delayed greater hoped launch months nine provide
It's disappointing that something they hoped would provide a greater kicker couldn't be there and that they delayed the launch for nine months to close to a year.
bit launching longer took
It took a little bit longer for these to launch; they said they would be launching them sooner.
good numbers opposed performance power reasonable
The performance numbers look good to me, and the power consumption is reasonable -- as opposed to unreasonable with many other servers.
lines past
They've done that in the past with their Celeron lines for lower-priced PCs.
architecture balanced catch intel struggling
AMD's architecture was really a well-thought, modern, balanced approach. Intel has to catch up. They're getting there, but they're still struggling to get more performance.
difficult faster market mobile parts segments speeds
They're recognizing that in some market segments like telecom, mobile handsets and handhelds, the parts tuned for faster speeds are too difficult to use and too power-hungry.
good might
You might as well do some good with it.
companies demand efficient looking pc
There will always be a demand for the super-big and super-fast boxes. But slimmer, and smaller, and more efficient is what the PC companies are looking at right now.