Let's hope their new stuff turns out to be good. They need it. The first benchmarks from the X2900 have just started to appear, and they are not looking good, under performing the 8800GTS. With any luck, it's just a driver issue, cause if they can't beat a 8800GTX then they're worse off than before. At least the X1950's are cheap.
You know why that Amd never dominated the cpu market is because the naive buyers thinking a P4 system for $400 is a great deal. Or the C2D 6300 with 1 gig of the cheapest built ram and a cruddy video card.Bertster7 wrote:
Is it not extremely obvious that I was responding to the point about AMD going under? I was highlighting the fact that even when they weren't on top, or even really significantly competing with Intel, they struggled by and kept on going until they released the K7 which put them on top.Zimmer wrote:
Struggling along? 7 months ago, AMD were dominating the CPU market with their new Processors back then. Then core2duo came out and AMD lost the battle, but not the war. They still have a lot of stuff to show the world, and I am sure they will come back on top.Bertster7 wrote:
AMD will keep struggling along. Just like they used to with the K5 and K6 CPUs, remember them?
Can you not see that extremely obvious point?
I'm saying I don't think AMD will go under (although the financial burden of their acquisition of ATI may cause them problems). They may pull ahead of Intel, but I'm not convinced they will, their new technologies seem clumsy and poorly conceived.
On top of that, AMD have NEVER dominated the CPU market. Their largest ever market share was less than 25%, while Intel's was over 70% - they may have overshadowed Intel CPUs performance wise (which they have done for many years), but they've never dominated the market.
I don't know where you get your 7 months figure from either. If you are talking from a performance perspective, which you must be considering the comparative market shares, then it has been 10 months since the release of the Conroe based CPUs last July - which outperformed all AMD's offerings.