Darkskypoet
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@viditor: AMD sells all the chips it makes, and does so at some level of profit. That this may not offset continuing investments in FABs, Debt carriage charges, etc is moot. They don't sell many chips for a loss... (K10s... maybe ) and when OEMs are factored in, that don't overclock, AMD matches intel on most of the top selling price points... Same reason why AMD will make money on the 3850 /3870 even though they don't own the high end... (although a 256mb gt would hurt them here... if it shows up in time)
Even if Phenom was the most elite thing since penryn... AMD could not take much more market share away from intel then what they currently hold. All that would happen is ASP would rise. (a good thing) but you'd not see AMD with half the market for years at least. They don't make enough chips. Let Chartered, and UMC or TSMC start making them, and then maybe they'd be able to start moving on up on the market share side of things. Until then, they don't have the product to do so.
Even if Phenom was the most elite thing since penryn... AMD could not take much more market share away from intel then what they currently hold. All that would happen is ASP would rise. (a good thing) but you'd not see AMD with half the market for years at least. They don't make enough chips. Let Chartered, and UMC or TSMC start making them, and then maybe they'd be able to start moving on up on the market share side of things. Until then, they don't have the product to do so.