Quote Originally Posted by dexman View Post
he´s right about one thing though. amd goes down - no price cuts at Intel(or very few), new microarchitecture once in 5 year. basically they would just sit on their butts and count money.

i´m not saying go buy underperforming cpu for same money but i surely hope amd will sort this out somehow. Intel has been trying very hard to put amd out of bussiness lately and so far they have done well. amd needs something to respond with, so lets hope they can pull through.
I wouldnt agree with that. Intel wouldn´t make much money that way. And they need something to keep all their factories busy. And they need something people would want to upgrade rather frequently.

Prices might be abit higher and such. But I dont see development stopping.
on the other hand it would also open up options for the bigger changes that competition wont allow.

And just because AMD could die, doesn´t mean its all over in competition. If it sucked hard enough everyone could just make an Apple move and change CPU arch. Specially since x86 aint pretty in any way.