X-bit labs

Started by: oroblraM | Date 03/24/04

Comments: 4 | Last Comment:  03/25/04

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1. I hate it. I am told everywhere to wait for socket 939. I am begining to think that Duke Nukem Forever is going to hit the shelves faster than this chip.

2. 1. AMD did not say 1M desktop A64s in Q1. AMD said they would hit about 1M TOTAL AMD64 parts (desktop, server (Opteron), mobile) in either Q1 OR Q2.

2. The Q4 04 and Q1 05 numbers cannot be correct. There is no reason to ramp that slowly, and certainly no reason to *plan* to ramp that slowly. These numbers may represent the "whitebox" supply... probably missing the large OEM numbers.

3. Well after Intel's latest I hope this doesn't take too long :)

My next system is focused on an FX-55 and an Nforce 3 PCI-e enabled chipset both of which I'll have to wait on to get. But after 3 Intel based machines its time for a change for the better.

Now hurry the engineers up please :)

4. Limited resources $$$ can limit how quickly a company can bring a product to market. You need money to make money.
AMD will pace themselves to get the most out of each release and keep MHz in reserve and ASP high. I'm sure AMD would have liked a bit more progress and a 64bit Microsoft OS. Intel are a bit more flexible and tend to have the money to quickly recover from mistakes and delays (& PR $$$).
AMD need to get pumping: faster CPU's and move more CPU's out the door. Would a few $Million would help Microsoft and developers to adopt AMD64 faster. They need more R&D to get ahead and stay ahead of Intel. It's more of a gamble they needed to do 12 months ago to be further ahead now.

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