Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham <lplist@closedsrc.org> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu>, Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: the AMD factor in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0104221735110.59297-100000@q.closedsrc.org> In-Reply-To: <000501c0cb76$a4a610a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>
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On 2001-04-22, Ted Mittelstaedt scribbled: # No, what this is, is Intel sticking it to the folks that want to buy a P3 # to support cheaper prices on the Celery. This only works because Intel # has successfully propagandized the majority of IT people that are # purchasing CPU's for high-end servers and such, that the P3 is better than # the AMD chip. But, if those IT people catch on then the volume of P3s # will drop so far that they won't be able to get the money from P3 sales # to support Celery R&D and they will have to raise prices on the Celery to # pay for the R&D and drop prices on the P3 to keep from losing the market. Another reason why Intel [processors] have been so popular with IT is that Intel has been known to nudge companies who try to sell desktops and ``workstations'' with Intel and AMD processors. Micron and Gateway have been able to somewhat get AMD processors in their home desktops, but have a hard time getting AMD processors in corporate desktops. They don't raise the prices on the Celery, but rather not reduce them a lot each time they roll-out a price cut. There have been a lot of rumors that Intel will be making very large cuts to the Pentium 4 processors and discontinue lower-end Pentium III processors to force feed IT purchasers the Pentium 4. And thanks to Intel and Rambu$t's PR arm, poorly informed IT decision makers will shell out the money for Rambu$t memory (remember, you have to buy two sticks for each upgrade...) I think Intel and AMD are going to have a huge battle and uphill climb to keep (or gain) the processor-king crown. Via isn't helping out any either :) -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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