“AMD competes with Intel, and the public wins. The right Microsoft antitrust settlement can bring the same energy back to the software market. The personal computer industry may be in its worst slump in history, but you wouldn’t know it by following the news from the processor wars. Over the past two years, Intel and AMD have unleashed an incredible competitive cycle in Silicon Valley.” Read the interesting editorial at Salon.com.
Chips Ahoy at Salon.com
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I always find this argument funny, because the first time I heard it was from a Microsoft spokesman on MSNBC at the first hints of the whole antitrust saga. Back then Microsoft was quick to point out they only had an N% share of the OS market while Intel had a >N share of the chip market. I guess the rational was the “we’re not the only monopoly in the computer industry” as if that made it okay. I like seeing good news about AMD, as I’ve been using their chips ever since that upgrade to my 486 DX4/100, but in a lot of ways they’re still guests playing in Intel’s playground.
well, if AMD were more serious about making, promoting & improving their own chipsets instead of merely making a ‘reference’ chipset and then leaving it to third parties, maybe they’d get a lot more attention. Intel does it all and deserves respect for that. The chips. The platform. The works.
> What if Microsoft were challenged as strongly on its home turf as AMD is now challenging Intel?
Simple, MS would buy them out, or drive them under…
>>Simple, MS would buy them out, or drive them under…<<
Not if their from Asia 🙂
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2002jan/gee20020115009748.htm
From: gnu_bob
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2002 5:22:13 AM
To: anybody who’ll listen: All GNU
Subject: ?trustworthy? .cons
Every few years I have sent out a memo talking about the highest priority for Linuxville. Two years ago, it was the kickoff of our .gnu strategy (boy, that went over like a sermon to the choir). Before that, it was several memos (to Janet Reno) about the importance of intregrity, & the prosecution of softwar gangsters to our future, and the ways we could make the Internet truly amusing/entertaining AND useful for people. Over the last year it has become clear that ensuring .gnu is a platform for EVERYBODY is more important than any other part of our work. If we don’t do this, people simply won’t be willing — or able — to take advantage of all the other great work we do. Penguin promotion is the highest priority for all the work we are doing. We must lead the industry to a whole new level of Trustworthiness in computing.
Are we/http://www.linuxville.com>these characters, or what?