Comments on: AMD focuses on 'x86 Everywhere'

CEO Ruiz says he's pleased with the company's "irreversible progress" as it recommits to 64-bit chips.

[Wolven Spectre]

I just DO NOT GET IT

PowerPC chips have been Dual Core for a long time, smaller, copper based, and about a third faster per Hertz as compared to the Xenon and Opteron (don't believe me, My News Jounal has a couple of stories about the new 64 bit dual core x86 CPUs and a comparison between a dual G5 system and a Dual Xenon and Opteron systems).

So when they change manufacturers do they go to the fastest cheapest x86 CPU manufacturer? No they go withthe one who PLANS to make a cooler runing chip. If they gavethem warning ans said, "You want all of Apple's Business, start makeing chips run cooler and you have a deal" youdon't think AMD wouldn't have a halfway stable prototype in no time flat?

Oh well, they will hack MacOS X Tiger in record time to run on PC's and Boy will you see AMD Macs appear FAST!
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[Andrew J Glina]

Cool Chips

Intel already have a cool (and low power) chip, the Pentium M. All future consumer chips will be based on it and AMD has nothing to match it. I recal that Toms Hardware has some good benchmarks on it.

[fred dunn]

AMD Is Great Stuff, BUT....

AMD has not put the resources into full platform support (ie; chipsets for their processors) that Intel has. While I am a huge AMD fan I wish they would start providing "whole" solutions rather than just processors and some reference chipsets. AMD is still depending on outside vendors to create their chipsets. Also they have to catch up to Intel on their level of embedded management to really break into the enterprise desktop business.

Fred Dunn