Nathan Brookwood
Nathan Brookwood
ahead categories clearly customers half lead performance power sensitive year
AMD is clearly ahead on performance and per-watt power advantages, which more and more customers are sensitive to. And for the first half of this year at least, AMD's lead in these categories will accelerate.
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There's an interesting trend just starting to emerge that could change things for the Itanium.
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That, of course, is the 64-bit question. Whether the AMD box can perform like IA-64 on Itanium. If the AMD box can do it, we'd be looking from a purely architectural point of view at a superior solution, because Intel is forcing people to make a compromise.
box forcing intel looking people perform point purely superior view whether
That, of course, is the 64-bit question, ... Whether the AMD box can perform like IA-64 on Itanium. If the AMD box can do it, we'd be looking from a purely architectural point of view at a superior solution, because Intel is forcing people to make a compromise.
expense low vacation
This is going to end the vacation that AMD and Cyrix have been having at Intel's expense at the low end (of the market),
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Now consumers can buy a Mac that is three times faster and for the same price.
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The old AMD used to sell its chips at a 25 to 50 percent discount to what Intel was charging. The new AMD more or less prices at parity (to Intel) and delivers higher levels of performance.
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This is a far more controlled and less radical approach.
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This is a big step forward. And if you're going to build in the capability for this I/O virtualization into devices like graphics cards, you're not going to want to do it twice. So if AMD can get the industry to close in around its standard, it could create a problem for Intel.
guy positive wants work
It is a positive for AMD that a guy like Hester wants to work there,
deal easier problems space
Right now you have to scrunch things together. If you space out the components, it makes the thermal problems much easier to deal with.
deal easier problems space
Right now you have to scrunch things together, ... If you space out the components, it makes the thermal problems much easier to deal with.
address variety
PIC does a lot of different things. It does address a variety of needs.
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If someone came up with a 64-bit desktop application, then AMD would have an advantage. As soon as the application base on PCs demands more than 4GB to run any particular application, that's when you will start to see pressure on the desktop for 64-bit processors. But the average use for a Windows 98 configuration is just south of 128MB, so we still have several years, as that demand tends to crawl forward at around 50 to 100 percent a year.