AMD claims that its yields lead the industry, meaning that it consistently pulls more perfect chips from each manufacturing run than the average, so it hadn’t the need to kick up to larger wafers to offset the number of bum chips per run
Regardless of size and position in the market, there is usually a gap between what a company says and what it does. These are hard to find at AMD.
O Rly? Release of K 10? R600? Benchmarks? Perfromance? He said the gaps were hard to find, but I think he must have meant the results.
Each generation of AMD64 has increased clock and bus speed, and carried CPUs from single to dual core, and yet AMD has managed to keep power consumption and heat absolutely flat. As a result, Opteron and Athlon FX, AMD’s two leading chip lines, have years-long stability in power, cooling, and socket specifications, enabling competition among third-party chip-set and motherboard makers
O Rly? He must never have heard of socket 939, or it just didnt exist in his world. I can see where its true that 65nm could not be considered a 'generation' of processor as its only a node shrink of K8, but it did turn out slower didnt it, and what about those FX 70/72/74s? Using less power and needing less cooling....I think not.
I believe that the 939-pin package has a lot of life in it and we’ll make sure that that package is stable and that we’ll make it last as long as the technology allows us too.
So much for that comment.
Non reactionary? Google "Henri Richard says Intel" and see how non reactionary the results are.
At Advanced Micro Devices, talking trash about Intel is always a significant part of someone's job. For decades, it fell to founder Jerry Sanders.
The baton has since passed to Henri Richard, executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. Last year, Richard asserted that Intel had fallen behind in terms of performance, because it had become complacent. CEO Hector Ruiz sometimes complains about Intel, but lately it's usually been Richard.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Richard, at a breakfast meeting, did his duty again. He said the Intel Inside program and other marketing promotions Intel has used over the years have killed profitability for PC makers.
"The industry was saddled with a very successful marketing program that sucked all of the profit out of the industry," he said. In China, PC makers can avoid these programs and "not become a hostage."
PC makers I've talked to have actually not been critical of Intel Inside. Without it, most say, they wouldn't be able to advertise. But Richard does make snappy quotes, and AMD has said in its lawsuit that the program has hurt competition, so a judge will ultimately get to review the debate. Intel vigorously denies all of AMD's claims and says it will prove it wrong in court.
Richard also said that some notebook designs based around Intel chips and ATI graphics chips have been "shot" because AMD bought ATI. He wasn't specific on which notebooks. Sources say this will be part of its antitrust case.
And in the meantime, it makes good copy.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-6148717-7.html
AMD is just now moving to its 65-nanometer process, and its first product using it will be Barcelona. With it, the company hopes to reclaim some of the momentum it built with Opteron. Much like Intel did a year ago, AMD is training the eyes of customers, analysts and press on a product that has yet to ship, in hopes they don't notice the current product.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2100-10879_11-6163315.html
"There is a side to this story that no one has written yet," he says. "There is a belief that history will repeat itself, that Intel will recover its markets, and things will go back to being the way they were. But that is not true."
RightyO :roll: Intel cant reclaim market, Intel cant reclaim market, Intel cant reclaim market.. maybe if Henri keeps chanting that to himself, time will go backwards.
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2006/09/svw_top_chat_he.php
I'm going to be straight. I think that we've been too quiet and I think that part of that is that we're trained to be very honest, grounded in reality, [and] truthful with our benchmarks. I'm sick and tired of being pushed around by a competitor that doesn't respect the rules of fair and open competition.
I think its very important for us to make sure that information that's diseminated in the marketplace is fair and honest and I think that people should be able to win on the merit of their products without trying to make reality into fiction. Our industry is lacking standard metrics like miles per gallon
David Berlind asked Richard how AMD intends to play this game and Richard responded that
"Two wrongs don't make a right and you can expect us to continue to stay true".
Later on in the interview Berlind highlighted one of the benchmarks that AMD was showing at the conference showing how AMD's best dual core Opteron was actually faster than Intel's best dual core Xeon 5160....
So here we have AMD’s Richard screaming about Intel’s use of older stats from the previous SPECint standard which shows Intel killing AMD by a large margin, then promises not to do the same thing, then goes right on ahead and offers one month old stats showing AMD’s 3% lead on SPECint_2006.
"It's driven by the fact that they can't talk about their current products, because everybody knows their current products aren't very good," said Henri Richard, AMD's chief sales and marketing officer, in an interview with CNET News.com late Friday.
Richard was responding to a prediction from an Intel executive that the company's chips scheduled for the second half of the year will deliver a 20 percent improvement in performance over comparable AMD products scheduled for release in the same time frame.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2100-10878_11-6043587.html
Meyer added that a price war started by Intel in the second quarter of 2006 caused many difficulties. "They did everything in their power to protect their monopoly," he said.
Dirk Meyer, AMD president and chief operating officer, told reporters recently that Intel used heavy discounts and predatory pricing to keep AMD out of its markets and accused it of "knee-capping" tactics, including fear and intimidation, to persuade manufacturers and retailers to opt for Intel-only microprocessors.
"Knee capping" tactics? :roll: Jeezus, grow up Dirk.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/worldbiz/archives/2006/09/13/2003327463
No one gets to pick and choose which actions they wish to show as representative of themselves. You cant say, "look where we invited everyone to a rollout party and gave them free food and drinks, but dont look at the web interview where our VP of marketing was jumping up and down like a rabid chimanzee". You are the sum of all your parts regardless of whether you like the light they cast you in or not. In the case of advertising, or a business, you are the sum of all your deals, transactions, advertisments, slogans and quotes. When you look at AMDs total hstory, not just the history they or the fanbois want to see, they are no differtent than Intel...meaning they are just as dirty and untruthfull. The proof is in the mouths of Dirk Meyer, Hector Ruiz and Henri Richard.
The person who wrote the artical you linked to, Tom Yager, appears to have a borescope view, seeing only what he wants, how he wants.
Oh, so long as we're qouting, heres a good one
AMD has already seen some pricing activity on Intel's part at the low end of the market, Richard said. "I'm seeing drastic price cuts on products people don't want to buy," he said. But the company declined to talk about whether it believes Intel will make wider cuts during the quarter. Intel, citing the quiet period in place up until next week's earnings call, declined to comment on its pricing strategy.
Hmmm, Henri said this in april of last year. Portents of things to come?http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2100-10878_11-6060597.html
Oh, and I finally found where Baron gets his "good enough" mentality from....guess where...go ahead.................Its Henri! Of course :roll:
“Yes, we may hit the 'good enough' phenomenon where the race is going to change,”
That quote can be found here
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/henri_richard/
Along with a shitload of other Henri quotes which should raise question to the 'non-reactionary' assesment
Off to another note: in all fairness to everyone involved, Henri, Hector, Dirk and even Paul.. the amount of partial quotes, and out of context quotes is suprising. To see the number of quotes from Henri around the web, you would think this guy is in front of a camera 24/7/52. Its amazing how his words have been chopped to fit articles. The guy gives one interview, and his words show up in 50 places.
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