AMD Not Competing with Intel Anymore, Goes Mobile

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It's not that having more cores is the problem, the problem is that programmers are lazy arrogant jerks who would do not choose to programme for multicore CPU's, which negates the purpose of a multicore CPU.. and yes, games are a perfect example to show where innovation in programmig is actually starting to exploit the benefits of multicore CPU's.

Well excuse me mr professional programmer :/ If you're so good why don't you go to a random open source project and "programme" it for multicore :rolleyes:
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Zain Adeel

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The problem isnt that pricing will go up. The problem is that they wont come down now.

And Intel processors are not that expensive. They offer very cheap ones aswell. Whats expensive is their chipset. And new motherboards.

Their motherboards are far more expensive than AMD ones.. specially for newer chips... So i hope to see a price drop there. and what do AMD think they will get from mobile market? Yet.. they hold nothing. Nvidia will kick them hard again when they meet them in mobile market. And im pretty sure with windows 8 x86 chips will be big in tablets.. Due to legacy support and Intel will get all the share. But this is where i think AMDs move might pay off. If they can make more power efficient x86 chips.. the performance issue wont matter that much. (they will also be cheaper i assume) so they can hold the cheaper tablets market segment.

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Even though I use Intel products I still hate them for several reasons. Their prices are just *WAY* too much. And I absolutely don't like Intel dictating what OS I can use on my machine. My current machine is Q6600 combined with an Intel motherboard and 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM. I built this machine when the Q6600 got launched and paid big amount to build up my latest and greatest machine. After assembling I started installing Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition on it because I was (and still) preparing for MCSE certification. I suddenly got blue screen, opened up the case and made sure everything is properly seated and gave the installation a second try and got the same blue screen. So to make sure everything is working properly I installed Windows XP instead and got no blue screens. Then to inquire I contacted Intel customer support who told me that you cannot install server OS on your machine. On hearing this I just got really mad. I asked the guy why the hell is this *FACT* not mentioned on the motherboard's retail packaging? He said the hardware doesn't support the server OS, upon hearing this I asked him how come my old P4 2.8GHz with 512MB of DDR RAM (which is still in use at my home right now) supports the very same version and edition of server OS and this latest hardware doesn't? He was speechless and in the end simply apologized for not mentioning this on the packaging of the product.

So the truth is Intel purposely disabled support and stopped supplying drivers for the server OS to force users to buy their wallet ripping Xeon processors and motherboards! That day I decided that my next build will be AMD because they atleast do not create such monoply and all in all their products are way more cheaper than the Intel ones. I think AMD should just hire new engineers to kick Intel's back. If Intel engineers can create superior products then AMD can do that as well. You just need to have the right people. AMD is financially backed up by ATIC which is owned by the Government of Abu Dhabi, which is the richest government and city in the world and has a 10% of the total oil of the world. So there is no way shortage of funds. They just need to hire new engineers to get them back on track and take the lead and make Intel compete with them instead of them competing with Intel.

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