AMD Exec would never buy an AMD Chip

[tajoh111]

Intel is good at two things :

1.crashing their opponents by blocking their to get supply from other suppliers
2.marketing

So are you saying they are not good at making processors?

First of all it was cited at the time AMD was dominating intel(facepalm number 1) ;second of all AMD is competitive today in all the segments except the high end (both server and desktop;high end is hardly relevant profit wise)-facepalm no 2.

So all in all, fail article and facepalm granted from me(after 6 years).

If I was the exec who said that six years ago, I would definitely agree with the facepalm. However in todays chip market, if I was a business exec, I would agree, that its better to use Intel chips because they offer way better performance per watt. And as an overclocker, they kill AMD on anything that is not ln2 or liquid helium.

Additionally, they are only competitive when their quadcores or tricores are taking on Intels dual-cores or last generation processors(at significantly higher speed to do it to in this case). The thing is, AMD fastest chips cost just as much to make as Intel fastest if not more.

Xbitlabs was saying that the phenom II x2 cores are just as large in die size as the core i7.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...n-ii-x2_3.html

They are only competitive using brute force(large die size or extra cores) and taking small margins which cause the company to lose money. This mean they are far behind techwise and this type of business model is not sustainable. This they are not truly competitive.

If Intel started to price their chips like AMD and follow the same business model, they would take out AMD in a year. Their current pricing plan is a more of making due with what they have, rather than something to due with how fast their chips are.