Re: Somewhat OT: Is AMD the new Intel?

From: JF Mezei (jfmezei.spamnot_at_teksavvy.com)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:36:54 -0400

David J Dachtera wrote:
> OPTERON VS. NOCONA: IT'S THE SYSTEM, STUPID
> http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/27/35FEamdoptnoc_1.html

I am not surprised at all at this. AMD took its time to design its 64 bit 8086
at a time when Intel didn't take AMD seriously. And Intel eventually had to
buckle to the pressure and announce some form of a 64 bit 8086 that was just
enough to say "me too" but not enough to compete against the IA64 thing.

The real danger is that AMD's offering will start to be used for serious
systems and Intel will left out in the dust for all 8086's based serious
servers unless it cranks up its own 8086.

The minute Intel is forced to make it 8086 compete against AMD's enterprise
class chip, it will mean that Intel's 8086 will move ahead faster than Intel's
IA64, and once the 8086 is clearly faster and has all the enterprise gadgets,
IA64 will cease to have a raison d'être sicne it will be in a much worse
situation compared to Alpha: at least Alpha had a distinct technological advantage.

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