[citation][nom]fedelm[/nom]I think I read somewhere a few years ago that Intel's R&D budget was AMDs ENTIRE budget as a company.No source, just from memory.[/citation]
Yeah, so what?
Is Intel better than AMD because of that? Nah, I dont think so.
Im just saying that your statement is irrelevant if you consider the total sizes and ratios of budgets. Sure it makes a lot of sense Intel's R&D matches the entire AMD value, but you have to remember that Intel is valued at what? Dozens if not hundreds of time AMDs value?
Besides, I dont know about you, but if AMD with its minuscule research budget managed to pull out Piledriver FX8350 and match or surpass the 2500k/3570k on many aspects (about 80% of the measurements here at Tom's) then well, I think that for their budget, Intel is wasting assloads of money and giving little to no advances recently. That is one serious feat from the red team, with everything against them and a 100 times smaller budget.
(Darn I sound like an AMD fanboy. I hate when it happens, but there is so many people throwing crap at a legit company that I feel the need to defend them)
@topic: thanks for the info about the 'legacy' meaning. I recognize myself ignorant about the former standards prior to what we know from Y2K