What incentive did Intel have to release the Q6600? A $266 quad might not have seemed to make any sense, but as long as Intel feels like they can invalidate K10 at the low end with cheap quads, they will do so.
During this year, quad cores have gone from a high end luxury for Extreme Edition...
True, but that only buys so much. Remember that Intel is rapidly lowering prices on quads and can squeeze them into the low end pretty quickly with a sub-$200 model, and further with a sub-$150. This will probably happen in the Q1-Q2 timeframe and history has shown that the "core war" is very...
I don't see how it was rushed. The scheduled release for K10 has been on the roadmap for some time. Granted, AMD roadmaps aren't all that reliable, but if anything K10 was delayed rather than moved up.
Furthermore, if it's true that K10 was moved up and rushed, why is the new Bulldozer...
I'm obviously new here, but I gotta say it's extremely unprofessional to discuss your stock portfolio on a public forum like this. Everything you are saying may well be true, but discussing that kind of thing is a pretty big social faux pas and makes you sound like you are just making it up...
I'm sorry, but this is nonsense. AMD is not going to make up an 11% clock-for-clock disparity due to stepping improvements. They might get another 1-2% by Q1.
And you know what? This doesn't help AMD. The reason is that because when Penryn arrives the clock-for-clock deficit gets BIGGER...
Oh come now, I'm willing to entertain a lot, but this is silly. AMD's stock price is due entirely to their disastrous financials. They've gone from over $40 a share in January of 2006 to $11 a share today. You don't see your stock price drop to 1/4 simply because of an 8% dilution of shares...
These other expenses included a $475 million R&D budget for last quarter, as well as $365 million in sales and administrative costs. These costs do not go away simply because AMD posted a gross profit, and although you are right that an operating loss isn't the end-all-be-all of figuring out...
Look, I realize that people want to see Phenom as something other than a failure, but people really need to look at the cold hard numbers involved here.
Taking Anandtech benchmarks I made a quick spreadsheet on performance deltas, along with the average performance disadvantage for a Phenom...
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