It's not common knowledge to me, and I wouldn't have a clue as to what
product literature you are so blithely directing me to examine.
Back when the Apple "announcement" was made, the story was that Jobs
criticism of IBM was the lack of a faster notebook CPU... along the lines
that their Moto/Freescale (as per Yousuf's correction) notebook CPUs were
only 1.8GHz and Intel had faster - there *was* mention of 3+Ghz. The point
is that Intel did not have and still doesnt have substantially faster -- OK
they have 2GHz P-Ms but 200Mhz is nothing to fret about and there are
damned few of them in currently available Intel-based notebooks; the 3+Ghz
notebook CPU excuse was a crock.
I'm not so sure it's Intel being determined to make a mark as much as
Intel realizing it has to make a stand. I can envision all kinds of
futures, and while I can't envision one in which any of the major
players (IBM, Intel, Microsoft) goes out of business, I can easily
imagine somebody taking a *very* big hit. I'm pretty good, usually, at
explaining the obvious, but Bill Gates outdid even what I might have
come up with to explain to Intel just how vulnerable it is--and
Microsoft has a game box, too, and Intel doesn't make the processor.
How can Intel make a "stand" in a market where it has no current
presence?... not to mention with devices where it has little or no
experience or expertise - again talk about hubris. Besides, the consumer
appliance space is a dumb move IMO - that space is littered with the
corpses of blue-chip U.S. corps from the 60s & 70s. How many times has
Motorola come to the brink because it can't leave it alone?
Of course there will be people using AMD64. The evidence, though, is
that Intel will dominate that market just like it dominates all other
segments of x86.
Your evidence... gathered from who knows where? The point is that AMD is
gaining a substantial portion which they didn't previously have and the
momentum is gathering - nobody needs 100%, except for Intel and again,
their hubris. Even software companies which wouldn't have dared mention
anything but Intel as a platform are now according at least equal weight to
AMD64.
Every shred of experience so far says so.
How many of those things can the Japanese build at huge losses and with
enormous govt. subsidies?
In the meantime, the only safe bet is Intel.
Put away the Intel slogan ticker machine.:-[]
Only my opinion. You really shouldn't get so exercised over someone
having an opinion that's different from yours.
Ditto.
