I agree, considering seamirco was purchased for a little more than 300 million in the multi-billion dollar server world I'm just not seeing the impact from that, might was well be AMD bought a shaved ice popsicle stand.

If Intel decided to compete with raw pricing and priced at AMD's current levels deliberately I doubt AMD would be able to hold out very long with such skinny margins, thats just the reality of the situation.

There's no way Intel could totally stop AMD from selling product but there's no doubt Intel could squeeze AMD on it's margins very easily, especially with the fabing advantage.

If Kepler shapes up to anything like the hype all AMD's previous advantages over Nvidia as far as performance per mm2 and power consumption will largely be nullified with Nvidia possibly gaining the advantage all around and not just raw single gpu performance.

However I'm a wait and see kind of person, I'll believe it all when I see it.

Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
You're quite the optimist.

"intel crying in the corner over SeaMicro"?!



I've got some bad news for you: $140b company wiith 80% market share don't care what $5b company does. AMD exists because intel allows them to. All intel would have to do is lower preices a bit temporarily and AMD wouldn't sell a part on the planet. That is the sad reality of the cpu market.