Quote Originally Posted by roofsniper View Post
hopefully now that amd has changed around all the positions around the company and got a new ceo that they will actually think things through. i think they got very arrogant with k8 and though that they could do w/e they wanted. thats why they went on this quest for a true quad core and ended up screwing themselves. the problem was that they acted as if no matter what they did they could still come out over intel. they knew that someday they would need a true quad so they thought that hey k8 is doing good lets go for a true quad first instead of jumping into it slowly. they screwed themselves and could of made k10 amazing. hopefully with bulldozer they will actually think it through instead of going for the gold.
You're only saying all these things with the benefit of hindsight. Assuming Intel didn't exist, you wouldn't be making that statement. What most fail to see is that Intel jumped leaps and bounds ahead with core/core2; it was a true revolution and we're still living it. Its been three years since Intel turned around the clock/clock deficit, and AMD still seems confounded by Intel's momentum. I mean that "fake" quadcore, Q6600, is still very strong and trades blows with AMD's best two years after the fact. That alone should give any doubters an idea about how revolutionary core2 was/is.