[citation][nom]silverblue[/nom]What, A4/A6/A8 isn't clear enough? :|[/citation]
Opteron, FX, Phenom II, Piledriver... plus a load of meaningless numbers (unless you do a lot of THG reading of course) behind each.
Don't get me wrong, I am very much PRO AMD, would hate to see them go away !!
But they simply do not have the marketing punch like Intel; they do not have the name recognition.
Intel Inside ... YEAH.... AMD inside...? What is an AMD ?
For consumer success you need the KISS approach. A catchy name, a few numbers and that's it.
The thing is that ever since AMD walked away from the MHz naming scheme some years ago (because clock speed is not everything) they started loosing out to Intel.
While AMD had a valid point, they totally overestimate the average user.
Even today, when I am with a client and computers come up I get asked how many MHz/GHz my computer has. Multiple cores or Graphics cards do not go into the average user's mindset.