Sorry for dridgeing up the dead but i dont think people know alot about the AMD dynamic. When richards left the crap talking still existed due to ruiz, Henry was a mouthpiece for that little napolean disorder.
I think richards resigned because of the negative flack he was getting due to Ruiz's speech writing. That must have sucked. The longer more damaging trend is dirk meyers anti competition attitude.
He was behind the 90nm has alot of life left in it that made c2d the king
behind the fud that c2d wouldnt take the crown
that am2 would be a suitable upgrade
and recently where he said Intels ideal of performance was only one way of looking at how a chip is useful or whatever.
Interesting and sad to note that it may very well have been Dirk all along that caused sales slumps with underperforming cpu’s.
in 04 AMD issued a statement that was basically sidestepping the move to 65nm saying” there is plenty of life left in 90nm”
in 06 feb a statement was issued that AMD wasnt worried about the Intel core lineup of processors, due to the meager gains of the first generation of oct 05 core releases which actually made alot of ground against 939. It was 4 months later that Intel destroyed the performance of AMD’s socket 939 and in a feeble attempt to put on a show AMD released Am2 Which was obsolete the day it left the fab, and has never taken any decent ground back from Core 2 processors.
Only phenom2’s released a few months ago, have made any ground against Intel core 2 chips, and then i7 came out, And AMD has this to say(below).
And now the man in his own words doing it again. Bear in mind they expected opterons barcelona to get up to a 60% performance boost and it never happend, the chip was an abysmal failure as was the 4×4 gaming platform when you compared performance per watt per price and instructions per clock. In fact AMD seems to have settled on a meager 2IPC to intels 3. At least thats kinda the feeling you get by listening to DIRK sell his religion as gospel.
Id like you to consider these points dirk and also consider that the favorite definition of insanity around most americans is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”
AMD cannot ever afford this type of lackluster attitude. for any major shareholders they need to tell Dirk that is not a position that is acceptable.
verndewd
Q1: How does AMD plan to compete with Intel’s Core 2 dual-core generation? How do you plan to go up against Core i7?
A1: Well, first I would like to start by saying that we are increasingly focused on end-users and what they are trying to do with their PCs and datacenters. In clients, that means enabling a much more graphics-intensive experience for their dollar. And in servers, it’s about giving them a superior system TCO, including seamless upgradability and things like power and cooling costs. So, the direct CPU to CPU comparison is becoming a lot less relevant over time.
That said, AMD-based systems are designed to deliver maximum value across all price points. And unlike Intel’s Core i7 processors that require an expensive system upgrade, AMD Phenom II processors can be used in many existing motherboards, enabling a more affordable single component upgrade. Maximum value may mean delivering a top-of-the-line PC experience, with performance tuning headroom or a superior HD entertainment experience on HD-capable panels. With that in mind, AMD launched “Dragon” platform technology at CES which combines some of the most competitive components in the industry to deliver superior performance at an incredible value.
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