Comments on: AMD's 'Live' to rival Intel's Viiv

The new year will see an onslaught of new PC chassis stickers touting chips by AMD and Intel in a range of computer products.

[KsprayDad]

Sticker Shock

I have never left one of their stickers on a computer once it is one my desk. Why would I? If Intel or AMD want to make me happy, make the sticker EASIER to take off instead of changing the font!

[whytakeiteasy]

HeHe

If you bought the thing, the sticker has already served its purpose. You can do whatever you want to do with it then. They've already got your money.

[SqlserverCode]

AMD is closing in

AMD is closing in on Intel and is closing in fast
Some people will say AMD already surpassed Intel
I think my next CPU will be a AMD

http://otherthingsnow.blogspot.com/

[brilo]

Closing in??

I've long been a fan of the AMD line, they've out-performed qualitative Intel chips for quite some time (even during the years when Intel feverishly denied this), they're much cheaper to purchase, and they're an extremely durable product.
It's good to see the Goliath get knocked around by David, in this case resulting in true competition which allows us, the consumer, to win.
While this latest round might be a battle of branding on media/pc related products we still gotta break it down chip by chip for the better buy.
I would like to ask if anyone has any knowledge of the Mac to Intel switch? Was there some unknown public knowledge here about something Intel has in the works, or was it for the massive scale that they push they're garbage out with? I tell my Mac friend that they should have went with AMD but I'd like to see them stumble with the Craptel!

[Seaspray0]

Processor Diversity

I'm glad that Intel will be seeing some serious competetion in the future. Competition has always been a good source of inovation. But even so, I feel we will eventually come to the point where we not just question the make, but also start looking at an alternative microcode to run. How long can we maintaing the backward compatability to the 8086 code? Consider how many more transistors we can now pack onto an even smaller chip than the old 8086, and even put multiple processors under the hood of the chip with onboard cache, hyperthreading, etc., hardware wise we've made alot of advances. I can envision a computer of the future that contains a chip holding dozens of processors all working together like the synapses of the human brain. I don't really see intel or AMD moving anytime soon away from backwards compatability, they have too much of a market share at stake. I could see motorola doing something like this as they have already produced a good RISC based chip.