Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
How old were you back then if you have such a poor memory ?

K7 and P3 were on par IPC wise ( gains were ussualy were SSE/3DNOW was being used ).Late on P3's life , K7 managed to out do it , MHz wise.
Early P4 ( Willy core ) sucked = > early 2000 to early 2002 AMD on top. Anyway , their succes was shadowed by the crappy chipsets they had.



Only in 2004 K8 managed to out do the top Northwoods and the victory was obvious with the advent of dual cores in 2005.My oh my how things turned in 2006

So out of 25 years of x86 history we have 4 years with AMD on top.Go eat your bananas now.
The Athlon 64 was launched in September of 2003, not 2004. Before that, blows were roughly traded back and forth between intel and AMD.

You're also forgetting the many times intel made an attempt to block AMD from competing completely. 1986/87, 1990, 1997, and 2005 all had lawsuits filed. The 1990 lawsuit being one filed by intel, yet won by AMD being one of the more important ones, because it was an attempt to block AMD from 486's. The 1986/87 was important as well, because intel attempted to stop amd from producing chips(which was a breach of contract btw)... So, out of 25 years, how many of them were strong armed by intel? As you know, a lawsuit doesn't occur over night, it takes years to get up the evidence to sue in the first place.

Sounds like a few people may have their history a bit messed up.