Advanced Micro Devices said on Thursday it currently has no plans to develop its dual-processor (DP) platforms for enthusiast. The decision essentially cancels any efforts in regards of the well-advertised FASN8 platform and forces the world’s second largest supplier of x86 microprocessors to leave the market of the so-called extreme enthusiasts.
“[…] AMD has discontinued future planning and development of its eight-core enthusiast platform at this time. […] We will continue to support customers that have an existing Quad FX with DSDC and are also working on an upgrade path for those customers. [The upgrade path] likely won’t be a Phenom-branded product,” Ms. Suzy Pruitt, a spokeswoman for AMD, said in an interview with TechReport web-site.
Following the release of Intel Core 2 Duo and then Intel Core 2 Quad microprocessors by Intel Corp., which immediately become favorites among computer enthusiasts, AMD had to find a way to offer even higher performance. As a result, the chipmaker introduced its Quad FX platform last year with two dual-core AMD Athlon 64 FX-70-series processors to compete against Intel Core 2 Quad. Moreover, it promised that its quad-core processors will be compatible with the Quad FX platform, which would allow end-users to switch processors without changing the rest of the platform.
But Intel was not standing still and shortly after AMD unveiled its Quad FX, the world’s largest maker of x86 chips started to tout its V8 platform that employed two quad-core central processing units (CPUs). As the time went by, Intel unveiled its code-named Skulltrail platform, which is set to employ two specially designed quad-core processors that cost over $3000 alone and feature other enthusiast-relevant capabilities.
AMD did not manage to introduce its AMD Phenom processors at really high clock-speeds to compete against Intel’s products and also had to postpone the release of its higher-price faster CPUs for workstations. Moreover, the company had to delay the release of AMD Phenom FX for enthusiasts. Currently the highest-speed AMD Phenom chip with four processing engines runs at 2.30GHz and cannot be compared against Intel’s Core 2 Extreme processors.
Since the company does not have “FX” parts for performance-demanding customers, it decided to offer AMD Opteron processors and platforms to those enthusiasts, who really need speed, and who needs it badly from AMD.
“While AMD is not actively promoting AMD Opteron processor as a 2P enthusiast solution, we recognized that there are enthusiasts who are looking for two-socket solutions and think an Opteron platform is well-suited to meet that demand at this time,” Ms. Pruitt added.
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they might as well discontinue all their products!
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Posted by: Anti-AMD FANboy!

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Date: 11/29/07 07:42:19 PM]
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I'll bet when AMD was ruling the roast, your probably their number 1 fanboy.
Much bigger than the PhD moron idiotic piece of turd.
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Posted by: dsfds

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Date: 11/29/07 07:53:30 PM]
this is both a good and bad step for them.
good: focus more on the main products (spider)
bad: nothing special to attract more fanboys to your side anymore
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Posted by: Skywalker

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Date: 11/29/07 08:01:56 PM]
Thumbs up for the comment! :)
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Posted by: Anton

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Date: 11/29/07 08:18:18 PM]
the big question is...
Who is the "more" moron??
The moron who first posted?? or the the moron who replied to the post with moronic statement??
must be an AMD cry baby in the midst!
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Posted by: who\'s who??

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Date: 11/30/07 12:17:58 AM]
Let me tell you something boy!
As a person who is neutral to both sides of the cpu industry, I go for or
recommend whatever that is currently the best in performance with the price a person can afford. If it was 3 years ago, then I'll recommend AMDs because during that time their the winning crown, as of now It's Intel's Core 2s. But if someone has a tight budget then an AMD processor will be a decent performer even if it does not beat the Core2 Duo in its category, then at least that person has a whole system to use instead of no system at all.
Therefore you been out of the sun for too long, STFU, and get
with the program!
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Posted by: dsfds

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Date: 12/02/07 09:20:00 AM]
Other than that, it'll be interesting what Intel will do with their V8 platform. Since AMD has ditched their QuadFX, maybe intel will stop wasting money on this and start making octo-core
cause quad is starting to become the norm. -_-
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Posted by: dsfds

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Date: 12/02/07 09:23:11 AM]
Let me tell you something old man!
With quad-core almost becoming a norm... AMD couldn't even make a decent quad... Phenom is loaded with bugs that stink more than your crap...
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/13724
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Posted by: who\'s who?

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Date: 12/05/07 11:10:49 PM]
I agree with dsfds ..
It is one of 2 things:
[1] you loved AMD and then it betrayed you
[2] you are Intel's B!atchE from the very start
other than that, i don't find your comments to hit any reasonable/interesting points nor to impress anyone. Finally, your arguments are shamefully flat.
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Posted by: DeMagH

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Date: 11/29/07 10:58:33 PM]
really?!? AMD used to have good products... then they milked out the K8... their recent products are dismal and pathetic... and are these platforms....
btw, you comment those add any interest too..
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Posted by: Being a Fanboy just sucks!

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Date: 11/30/07 12:03:15 AM]
Oh yeah because you never saw Intel sit on a architecture like that DID YOU? (insert sarcastic laugh)
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Posted by: Megamanx00

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Date: 11/30/07 10:36:18 AM]
well whats best to describe their current portfolio ??
over-hyped.... under performing.... late to market.... can't be produced in volumes... inflated pricing.... buggy chips??
not to mention whining fanboys...
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Posted by: Being a Fanboy just sucks!

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Date: 11/30/07 11:35:40 AM]
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i was actually pissed by that ANTI AMD guy that i forgot to comment on the original story.
Well i am glad they canceled this. I was thinking AMD is winning back some ground through their ... semi-reasonable product extension.
Like the spider platform with the possibility to carry 8-GPUs .. if this adds up with a dual processor platform, it will be winning benchmarks i guess, but will be losing practicality.
Canceling this gave another meaning to AMD's strategy, they are still willing to fight head to head with Intel's products as winning through dual processors is just ... stupid .. plain and simple.
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Posted by: DeMagH

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Date: 11/29/07 11:05:38 PM]
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they cancelled this because its as pathetic as most of their products!
semi-reasonable product extension?!?
are you joking?!? a product is either reasonable or unreasonable.... nothing in between!!
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Posted by: Being a Fanboy just sucks!

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Date: 11/30/07 12:07:23 AM]
You're just being unreasonable...Cockster alert!
AMD has been on the shit end for some time anyway, so butt out and wait. So nigga...please...take your ANTI-AMD elsewhere...we don't want your cockster germs ruining it for everyone...
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Posted by: sora

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Date: 11/30/07 01:33:06 AM]
so you're now a a$$ $uckin racist?!?
get your crappin fanboyism out of here!
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Posted by: sora $hithead

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Date: 11/30/07 04:27:30 AM]
well before it is proven efficient OR not, i call this stage "semi-reasonable" as the approach carries some interesting idea inside of it, though it have failing potential as well.
like the backward compatibility issue .. is this reasonable?! is this unreasonable?! only coming reviews and forum discussions will tell.
Jumping to conclusions and stating with the highest voice you've got "Reasonable" OR "Unreasonable" without a proof, isn't my style.
Anyway as stated before, i am glad they switched routes because this was getting ridiculous, first adding video cards to reach 4 cards installed per motherboard, then adding processors?! that's not how computers should be upgraded.
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Posted by: DeMagH

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Date: 11/30/07 04:47:04 AM]
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Thank god, they finally see (part of the) truth
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Posted by: 1234

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Date: 11/30/07 03:17:18 AM]
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I am truly disappointed with AMD cancelling their 8-core DP system, I am really considering jumping boat to Intel for the first time since my dads old 386 system. Intel should really slash the prices on their V8 system - yes AMD can concentrate on their Spider system but it comes at the cost of loosing the support of enthusiasts.
I held high hopes for AMD, to turn out for nothing, I doubt AMD now will not have a good processor to rival Intel until the AMD Fusion, and even then, Fusion may have complexity problems.
Goodbye AMD, it was nice for the past 10 years being with your CPU's. AMD made their bed so they better lie in it, they shouldn't have been idle when the Core2 became a threat!
I wish AMD the best and maybe one day I may come back to them - time will tell
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Posted by: J-Hawke

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Date: 11/30/07 04:51:01 AM]
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It apears AMD is out of the game , sharing fate of cyrix
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Posted by: muzzle8410

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Date: 11/30/07 05:45:30 AM]
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HAHAHAHAHA... I agree, they are better off discontinuing all of their products.
AMD feels like Britney Spears nowadays. One bad news after another, a train wreck.
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Posted by: Mr. BonBon

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Date: 11/30/07 07:37:15 AM]
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LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!! :P
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Posted by: DeMagH

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Date: 11/30/07 02:41:59 PM]
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So my l1n64-sli ws is only getting whats out there now in cpu's. Be nice to atleast get a black edition out for 1207 socket.
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Posted by: BW

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Date: 11/30/07 08:36:04 AM]
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The FX 70 series are basically re-branded Opterons to begin with. It would be in AMD's best interest to have an 8 core platform and pair it with ati chipset and Crossfire X. Even though they could not charge as much as Intel due to the low clock speeds of even the Opterons, they could sell the motherboards and CPU's together to customers like Falcon and Dell, and then offer the quad Graphics card setup as well. The margins could be high on such a setup and it sounds more attractive to enthusiasts if it has dual Quad FX CPUs instead of just saying it has two Opteron CPUs. Of course even though that sounds like a good idea AMD has finally realized they are bleeding money and that they need to minimize some of their risks until they stabilize their financial situation, if that ever happens anyway.
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Posted by: Megamanx00

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Date: 11/30/07 10:49:13 AM]
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Another classic screwing of the public to buy some over priced "exclusive" platform. I'll just keep my Core 2 notebook and XBox, thanks.
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Posted by: Rick

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Date: 12/01/07 08:46:23 AM]
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This may make you think that AMD wont do anymore of the superhyped bullshit claims filled wih PR decorated vague overwhelming predictions brought forward as facts about how their DIDLYDONS8 platform is going to revolutionize the enthusiasts' world and knock their socks off into the moon at the same time.
Because you know how now you see their QuadFather platform or what they decided to call it later FASN8 (oh my god ! what a lame name) is down te drain
Right? ..... Wrong they are doing it again with Spider platform.
But to be honst both these craptastic platforms have their good usage and that is filling the media outlets (those with no specialty in any special field like MSN) with promotional videos to win mindshares and to make themselves look like they are on the leading edge to fool their current shareholders happy and try to keep them and possibly trick some uninformed blokes to buy their shares
Its just there to act as a temp shot in the arm whenever they think they need one and thats when they feel the are left behind the competition pretty badly, shouldnt really take them seriously even if they come up with anothe one named BBQFN8$WTF8.
These are just mouthfiller PR grout platfoms.
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Date: 12/02/07 02:12:17 PM]
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