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By MagnumMan on 3/27/2008 5:34:23 PM , Rating: 4
Have you seen the price of the higher end intel CPUs that have no competition? How about $1000 for a 3GHz quad core CPU that runs a little bit faster than the 2.4GHz one? Is it 4 times faster? It should be, because it costs 4 times as much. Way out of control. AMD is a very important company, if for nothing more than to make sure intel doesn't have their way with the world.



By joemoedee on 3/28/2008 10:12:21 AM , Rating: 2

I made that point already in my post... (As I quote myself)

AMD's competition has made Intel put out some great CPUs, I'm hoping they stick around and start to innovate again.

Intel has $1000 cpus. Agreed. AMD had similarly priced CPUs. (FX-51, FX-53, FX-55, FX-57, FX-60, etc) If you have the performance, you can sell the niche part. AMD doesn't have it now, and thus doesn't even attempt to compete. Current indicators show that they won't be able to compete on the "high" end for awhile, and the issue I brought up is AMD's current "high" end only compares with "low" end Intel parts.


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