Comments on: A brief history of chip hype--and flops (part 1)

This first installment in a series about silicon gone sour takes a look back at the Cyrix M1 and Intel's Itanium, as well as today's Barcelona from AMD.

[blueTXcowboy]

I wouldn't be too critical of AMD. Intel has proven over and over again that when they are not challenged by even a small competitor, they turn their interests to solidifying their monopoly as opposed to providing parts that meet the customer's needs. Itanium was not only a new architecture that was touted to outperform everything else, it was also a strategy to move the market away from x86 to a code set they legally defend from any competitor. Intel is as ruthless a company as they get. As a design engineer who has has watched the microprocessor market for over 20 years, I can say with little doubt: Intel is not your friend.

[xrider25]

Once again another AMD fanboy if you say anything bad about the company they start crying. This artical was just trying to point out some miss steps these companies have taken thats all

[blueTXcowboy]

Sorry dude, you haven't a clue. No crying, no whining, just facts. AMD has made mistakes, but so has every tech company out there, including Intel. When someone has no facts or truth to stand on, they come up with silly comments like yours.

[ColdFireDragon]

Just a couple things.

1) I hope AMD can rebound some and put up a good competition to the Intel Core CPUs. The only reason we have the Core CPUs is because of AMD. If there was no Athlon line we would still be using the P4 Netburst architecture CPUs, as Intel would have had no reason to do something better. Competition is good.

2) I personally I liked the Cyrix 6x86 CPUs. They were cheap and ran office apps as fast as a Pentium MMX. No they were not gaming CPUs but I loved them for use in our office computers back in the day.

[faustolg]

You are right! these 2 points are true.