

AMD plummets in microprocessor market ranking





Source: Icinsights

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RE: A Sad Day
By Azethoth on 5/21/2013 8:33:20 PM , Rating: 2
Dude, the reason future people will not build their own desktop from scratch has nothing to do with mobile. It has everything to do with the move to a single SOC. Once that SOC has all the memory, GPU , CPU, communications, sound, and other stuff you used to hand assemble there will be zero need for hand crafting.

Intel will not just ship a CPU + cooler combo. They will ship the entire computer. You can then buy the case and insert it.

Even now, what exactly are you hand building? For me it is board + CPU + cooler + GPU + SSD. That's 5 objects. I have seen more complicated Lego setups.

RE: A Sad Day
By Strunf on 5/22/2013 7:56:29 AM , Rating: 2
I doubt it will ever be like you say for power users, think about it you'll always need better GPUs, RAM, a board and a hard drive, I see the possibility that GPUs and CPU merge to a single chip, but I doubt it will happen anytime soon, not when nVIDIA, AMD and Intel remain 3 different companies, as long as Intel makes the best CPUs, nVIDIA/AMD make the best GPU they will not merge, AMD could in theory merge its best CPU with its best GPU, but the cooler would be monstrous, it's probably not in ours or theirs best interest to merge power consuming components together.

For the vast majority the SOC will work but then again the vast majority doesn't even open their PCs, so if it's SOC or not it doesn't really matter for them.

Another point is cost, it's cheaper to produce 5 simpler devices than 1 complex one, also companies that produce RAM have better expertise and can produce cheaper RAM than Intel, would it be even worth for Intel to include 16GB of RAM on their chips when RAM is based on a different process?

