AMD Exec would never buy an AMD Chip

[RaZz!]

The quote is from 2004... which means he'd take a P4 over an athlon 64? fail

i really think his statement wasn't meant to be taken literally. even though amd's a64 wiped the floor with intel's p4 back then, intel sold more p4 than amd its a64 - because most large oems just offered pcs with intel's p4.... that's what the recent anti-trust case between amd and intel was about. and here is, imo, the point where this statement might fit: "imagine you're a casual pc user that has no clue about performance figures and the like and you go to a store or oem-website and everywhere you look there's always a huge p4-advertising catching your eyes. almost every pc features a p4, oem pcs with a64 are scarce articles. NOW what would you buy? under these circumstances 'i wouldn't buy amd either'".

i think you get the idea

[marten_larsson]

i really think his statement wasn't meant to be taken literally. even though amd's a64 wiped the floor with intel's p4 back then, intel sold more p4 than amd its a64 - because most large oems just offered pcs with intel's p4.... that's what the recent anti-trust case between amd and intel was about. and here is, imo, the point where this statement might fit: "imagine you're a casual pc user that has no clue about performance figures and the like and you go to a store or oem-website and everywhere you look there's always a huge p4-advertising catching your eyes. almost every pc features a p4, oem pcs with a64 are scarce articles. NOW what would you buy? under these circumstances 'i wouldn't buy amd either'".

i think you get the idea

Exactly. I think the point he was trying to make is "If I didn't work at AMD, I wouldn't have known it's just as good or better, and I would have went with the familiar and common Intel instead".

And what mr Ruiz is saying is that they could have been better off with delivering a complete platform rather than just the processors - from their (AMD's) business perspective. Not from a performance or cost perspective to the end costumer.

[generics_user]

i don't get all your facepalm comments---


it's an internal memo and i bet that they weren't talking about desktop chips

read the hector ruiz quote above; i'm 100% sure that this talk was about mobile chips which simply sucked back then (desktop chip stuck into a mobile system; propably athlon XP) and it could be a complaint from exec to R&D regarding the lack of competitive mobile chips from amd....