Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[dexman]

I really dont see your points. Because you essentially try and paint AMD and Intel as the only MPU designers and suppliers in the world.

it´s pretty much that way from the desktop PC point of view. i wasnt talking about all processors, just this specific segment. even apple started to use intel cpu, and then there is via...which doesn´t need any further comment,they´ve been focusing on other things and clearly can´t compete intel. i´m not aware of anyone else making processors for computers that WE use as workstations, correct me of i´m wrong.

If development slows down, so will the reason to buy a new CPU. Would you buy a new CPU that was 10-20% faster 2 years later?

that is partially right. computers imo wont experience rapid decrease in selling because improvements are not what they used to be. majority of people dont even know what rig they have, they just call dell and say "I need PC for gaming/office". the most important thing is that this is growing market, every year more computers are sold, so i wouldnt worry if i was intel that some enthusiastic people are giving up on me.

R&D wont lose much, maybe go from 6 to 5billion$. But if you want to compare with MS, Vista costed what, 40-50billion$? Hardly money saved on R&D so to say.

surely they would have spent more if someone was breathing on their neck.

And even MS have to keep pace up and develop alot of new products and things.

can´t see any horrible effort in OS market. but they have to progress when they look how awfully close are free distributed OS to their systems. honestly, it took Vista 5 years to replace XP and what are the results? some bling-bling features, slight improvenents. with competition Vista would have come much earlier.

Roughly, I would say the ticktock might change to 3 years vs 2 now. And the price may go up 20%. But besides that I dont see anything.
On the other hand I can see a longterm benefit of a temporary monopol in the death of x86 aswell as a few other things. And a greater push for more drastic tech changes for the better.

sorry but your thinking is flawed in this. monopoly is a second name for stagnancy, nothing good comes out of it, longterm or shorterm. history has proven this over and over. what´s holding intel from inventing something other than x86 and switching to it while there is competition?