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Unless AMD kills itself
AMD is in really bad financial shape but the company won’t die. The company has enough cash to survive trough the next rough quarters and it should start coming back in shape in Q1 2008.Intel is the one that cannot let AMD die.
In case AMD wen't down US and EU authorities would be all over Intel trying to break the monopoly that this company has for years in CPU market. Intel needs AMD as a gimmick to prove that it doesn’t have a monopoly. With or without AMD it doesnt have monopoly but Intel was hurt to see small AMD so strong and having so good products.
Intel is now concerned as AMD is the one that is running toward a cliff. Intel cannot prevent AMD to kill itself and this is the worst fear now. We all need AMD and we can see the end of this crisis but don’t be fooled, Intel doesn’t want them dead but it does like to see them weak.
Tja raar stukje. En dan kunnen ze wel zeggen intel mag geen monopolie hebben maar ga maar eens kijken bij die bedrijven wedden dat ze zelf mee helpen aan de ondergang van AMD en daar alleen maar Intel pc's hebben staan

. Bedrijven blijven vaak Intel kopen ook al was AMD sneller zuiniger en goedkoper. Intel was intel en dus stabieler en beter. Totale onzin maar goed dat blijven we denk ik de rest van ons leven nog horen

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Server guys don’t want 3GHz now, AMD claims
Sources close to AMD claim that its server customers actually want 2.0 GHz parts more than they want the 3.0 GHz ones.
Well they don’t have any other choice than to claim that and we know that AMD would love to have 3.0 GHz parts soon. The problem is fixed but it’s not that easy to move to B2 revision of a CPU, as this is the one that can easily go even over 3 GHz.
Intel can go even faster as it already shrunk its die to 45 nanometre, but Intel will wait to see the Barcelona in action and then it will finally decide its clock speeds.
AMD is now playing catch up and we believe that even clock to clock Intel will give AMD a hell of a ride it is ready with its 45 quad core CPUs. The 2 GHz Barcelona should not be that expensive, at least everyone hopes so.
Okeey dat server bouwers geen 3 GHz willen snap ik maar ze willen echt wel wat snellers dan 2 GHz . Dus dit is een beetje een rot smoes

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Not even on dry ice
Our sources close to AMD have confirmed that Phenom 3GHz cannot even come close to 30000 in 3Dmark06, even on dry ice and heavy overclock. The same sources confirmed that no matter how AMD would like this to be true that such expectation about Phenom 3GHz would be too much.
If Phenom that fast, this would mean that clock to clock AMD is twice as fast as Intel’s quad core at the same clock speed and that is simply impossible.
With highest overclocking you will get to 26.800, trust me that is quite a lot, and Kingpin overclocked a Core 2 Duo to 5251 GHz and used two Geforce 8800 Ultras to get there.
In our Viennese lab we’ve two Geforce 8800 Ultras overclocked to 655 MHz each and Core 2 Duo extreme X6800 at 2.93 GHz will score 13500 and that is the fastest score we’ve seen. Quad core at 3GHz and FSB 1333 is maybe a few hundred faster but that’s it.
The original story is here and at the end you can believe what you want to believe but you have been warned.
30K score met een 3 GHz klopt niet maar dat wisten we zelf ook al

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To its distributors and OEMs
AMD is getting ready for the Barcelona launch. The launch is going to take the place on the 10th of September in Dubai, Barcelona and New York and AMD even officially said that it started shipping the CPUs in August.
Our colleagues at Xbitlabs have confirm this here but the real clocks and volume shipment will come in Q4 2007 as we wrote so many times before.
Officially unless you are a big server company you will be able to buy a 1.9 and 2.0 GHz parts with TDP of 95W after 10th of September or in exactly 7 days. The days of waiting for Barcelona are almost over.
Wordt ook wel tijd. We wachten nu al zo lang. Mja dan moeten we ons 3 maanden vermaken met scores van de server cpu's en dan in December een Phenom X4 voor in me PC

Astennu wijzigde dit bericht 03-09-2007 11:45 (10%)