  AMD announces plans to toss out its dead weight.
Comments     Threshold   RE: No Sympathy Whatsoever.. By TETRONG
on 4/18/2008 1:23:38 PM , Rating: 0 Lets not forget that this is
a very cyclical industry.  Intel is riding high on the hog, but
they're definitely starting to show signs of stagnation again.
As evidenced by their deviation from their very own "tick, tock"
schedule. If it weren't for the tech consortium aligned with IBM
we wouldn't be seeing Nehalem this year, and they would stay at
45nm until 2011.  AMD had hyperconnect and on-die memory
controllers what 2-3 years in advance of Intel? Who gave us 64
bit processors? Who gave us true dual-core? Intel simply copies
AMD first-mover strategic/tech decisions, then when they need a
bailout they prostrate in front of their Israeli design team who
is severely overworked, underpaid, under.....etc, etc....  I got
other news for you too- As soon as Intel tries to pull some shit
with Apple "Oh, the markets shrinking, and you're doing so well,
can