Official AMD Barcelona Thread

[Shintai]

You are wrong R&D expenses are constantly increasing. Particularly node shrinks.

Oh really? Can you tell me why AMD reduced its R&D with 500million and Intel have reduced it with 300million, and might reduce it further?

Dont mix factory cost with R&D.

That is not true. Most ppl treat their computers like every other electrical appliance in their houe. It breaks or a new gadget comes out and they'll gat a new computer

There is no reason a computer cant last 5years or more. Today it usually last 2-3 years due to people wanting the newer and faster.

Actually no it wasnt restarted from scratch, they just dropped all the innovative features in order to not delay the release even further as it was quite clear they couldnt be sure they could finalize the new features in a timely fashion.

No, in the middle of the Vista development security got alot more focus. Alot of people was moved to the XP Sp2 project aswell. And they had to restart most part of the Vista project with security in mind after reeducation of the staff.

Compatibility is not the only reason IA64 failed to become mainstream. Performance just wasn.t there. It took Intel ages to get the compiler to work as they wanted. You have to understand that to push for a new arch to get accepted Intel needed to overcome the resistance the lack of compatibility would create by offering substantial performance improvements. That never happened , so IA64 failed. AMD just saw the opportunity and grabbed it.

So you admit that competition is the issue. You dont develop it overnight. IA64 performance in itself is good. Compability performance sucked. AMD did as I described. Added a cheap touch and we sit in the same garbage for the next 20 years. If over 10 billion$ cant change architecture in a competitive environment. Then what is needed?

There can be no temporary monopoly in the x86 market. If AMD goes out of business, Intel will be all there will be and im quite sure they'd start pushing IA64 again. The barrier for entry is just too high for any company to enter the market.

It actually worked fine for transmeta. Dont tell me nobody will enter the market. If the profit is good enough there to be made, then you will get competition. Its no more different on how Via, Cyrix, Transmeta and Nexgen started.

The only barrier there is, is the direct foundry advantage a company can have.