AMD ships PC chip for gamers – Hardware – www.itnews.com.au The company rolls out this new chip…
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has released a PC chip made for hardcore videogame players willing to pay more for power.
The AMD Athlon 64 FX-57 processor is built for computers made to play 3D games and other power-hungry applications with intense and realistic graphic resolutions. The new chip is the fourth iteration of the Athlon 64 FX family.
and then sues Intel for Anti-Truust the same day!!!
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The problem for AMD is that it years ago worked out a settlement with Intel wherein Intel gets to have any AMD technology for free.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5159067.html
Thus, it’s impossible for AMD to get a real leg up on Intel. Everything AMD can do to get ahead, Intel could simply follow suit. The best example is AMD’s 64 bit chip. Intel’s version of it is identical other than the name.
a starting price of US$1031 apiece in quantities of 1000.
And that investment will last how many months, before it is upstaged by the next big thing?
The only surprise to me is that AMD waited this long to file against Intel. AMD desperately needs to break the exclusive deals Intel has with OEMs like Dell. Intel long ago lost the computer enthusiast market — it’s been five years since I even looked at buying an Intel chip for myself. While Intel clearly has surperior laptop chips, AMD has for years had better desktop chips and should be in control of that market. Intel holds on to what desktop chip market share it has by forcing the OEMs to accept these exclusive deals where they can only use Intel chips. Without these deals, I think AMD would be clearly dominate in the desktop chip market. It remains to be seen whether AMD can put together the technology to be competitive when it comes to laptop computers.