AMD vs. Intel Strange Conspiracy theory?

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This is a strange one that I have been wondering and looking into, and observing for a long time. I was told by a source that is obviously not dependible but humor me, that intel cpu's are no match to amd due to the theory (it's rediculous but humor it) intentional replacement,and the cpu is designed to get slower after time which is why they never release cpus on the same mobo platform like amd and theychange constantly to get more money. I know this a lame conspiracy but I wan to get some honest opinions about that. Is there any truth to that at all or is is trash. the biggest question is I want to know the history of amd vs. intel because it also was claimed that overtime amd cpu's will work better than intel and amd has always been better. Intel fanboys rejoice because i'm ready for anyting I have strong feeling so don't be afraid to attack me. amd fanboys are wecome to have their say as well. have at it.



As a side note, I'm not really swayed either way as a fanboy to either company, my decision is decided by the almighty dollar. so far amd has consistantly been the better value enjoy. feel free to flame coment the post on my blog about this too.
http://rokk-itscientistblog.blogspot.com/
 
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Complete garbage. CPUs don't get slower over time. Operating systems however can get slower over time, but this is easily remedied with a reinstallation of the OS.
I think this person may be misunderstanding the difference between a NUMA (non-uniform memory access) and a UMA (Uniform memory access) hardware design.

UMA CPUs all compete for the same memory all the time, so the more CPUs, the bigger the contentions, and slowing occurs. Big local caches mitigate this problem.

NUMA CPUs have local memory. Each CPU has it's own memory, and has a way of sharing memory from other CPUs. This design can scale bigger as long as the OS knows how to deal with local and non-local memory.

Both designs have their strengths and weaknesses.
 
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