Submitted by The Register notes that due to Intel’s developer conference going on this week, and its excellent public relations capabilitites, we’ll be seeing a lot of good news about Intel in the press over the next few days. Don’t be fooled. Things aren’t quite as rosy for the chip giant as they’ll make it seem.
Intel wants to make momentum now the new AMD X2’s are ready for the sale channels.
I know the margins are lower then servers, but the one thing Intel does have is the mobile market. Laptops are an ever-increasing share of the total PC market, and Centrino seems to have about 90% of that market.
This article completely skips this, as it paints doom and gloom for Intel.
(disclaimer: This post typed on a AMD Athlon64, but my laptop is a Intel Centrino Pentium M)
The register is the IT industry’s equivalent of a Sunday tabloid.
I agree. You’ll notice that I toned down the sensationalism when I summarized the article. There is some truth there, though. Intel does have a great PR machine, and things aren’t so rosy for them as they might otherwise claim.
But sometimes they do get it right.
And Intel is the MS Equivalent of failed promisses (like cutting OS layers they promised during PR campaign) in hardware department. Just take a look what they promissed for Merced in 95. They still haven’t achived those things.
(disclaimer: This post typed on a AMD Athlon64, but my laptop is a Intel Centrino Pentium M)
Likewise,only a “small” difference it’s a 25Watt consuming new AMD mobile 64 Turion.
Intel Dr. Pentium series and Itanic = shit.
IBM POWER5 = good.
> IBM POWER5 = good.
Because it only gets a high FLOPS rating but fails horribly at application processing?. The POWER5 is a pretty poor performer in the majority of real world applications, just like Sun’s SPARC.
Because it only gets a high FLOPS rating but fails horribly at application processing?. The POWER5 is a pretty poor performer in the majority of real world applications, just like Sun’s SPARC.
I guess it depends on what you want out of a processor – to heat a room or to process information at a cost effective price; when you need to have thousands of dollars worth of equipment to keep a datacentre cooler than the antartic, because the POWER5 is sucking more electricity than an electric chair convention in Texas, then you have some problems.
Regarding the article itself, I find it good to finally get a sober article reminding the youngsters out there, big companies are prone to making mistakes – but unlike other companies, Intel always seems to have a way of controlling the shit storm that inevitably errupts around them.
With AMD, the Athlon and ultimately the Hammer processor were do or die processors – if they didn’t work the first time around, they could kiss their ass good bye – what AMD had was pressure of themselves to succeed – they have to prove to investors and creditors that their product line up was competitive and to top it off, had to prove to its customers that their processors could be provided in volume and on time.
Intel on the other hand has none of those pressures – big customers who are unwilling to tell Intel to go take a hike, specifically looking at Dell and their unwillingness to offer AMD products. Basically for Intel, as long as they Dell for the work horse markets, and Apple for the sexy markets; they couldn’t care less what other vendors do – and with the rise of mobile computing and the expanded use of the Xscale processor – they’ll eventually become less and less reliant on desktop processors.
Naming ‘Itanium’ ‘Itanic’ is soooo childish! I can understand when somebody in OSNews comments uses this term, but it doesn’t give good credit to the journalist who writes in such terms.
And really… The REGISTER warns you! Ha ha!
Athlon 64 X2 or Athlon64 Turion.
From what I can see, reading various tests, Pentium M [PM]overperforms Turion (at same clock speed*) almost in all aspects, let it be power consumption (PM consumes less, esp. under load) or game performance (PM is much faster). There are only some syntetic and some mostly mathematical tests, where Turion wins (by a very little margin).
* same clock speed means that PM has equivalent good, if not better internal design than Turion (compare with Pentium 4 vs AMD tests, wvhere AMD usually wins).
Well, I’ve been AMD user or many years:) I hope AMD will answer to Pentium M technolgy with something ‘cooler’ (in whatever sense you prefer), maybe in year 2007. Competiton makes both products better.
Competiton makes both products better.
Undoubtedly yes.In the end a win-win situation for the consumer.
The PM is strong on the mobile market and the AMD is equivalent to the PM.
However Intel lacks severely an answere to the AMD desktop/server CPU’s,especially the X2’s.An PM isn’t and answere there, neither is the P4 with additional 64 bit instruction set, the Xeon or Itanium aren’t either.
The desktop market is in a firm monopoly grip.Most of the users don’t know what to care about and can’t see any distinctions.
The server market is a different one.The audience there is highly skilled and educated and mostly well informed.You wouldn’t sell apples as oranges that easy there.Doing nothing and spending only money on marketing might bite you in the foot someday.