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Can't be true - Intel's not the one with the Green logo...

normally I'm not a praying man but

lord give me strength in sub 100 dollar quad cores, with sub 50 dollar mobos with IGPs.

Thanks.

http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/shared [...] _month.stm

In case you missed it, AMD rose 15% on the day the i5 was launched. Think about it.

You made a thread containing the word "AMD" and "doomed".

This is normal.

Might decide to skip Athlon II to Phenom II X2 and try and unlock the extra cores.

The ACC 785G is about the cheapest mobo you can buy.

AMD is about lower end. Intel is higher end.

Both are good buys.

But don't forget the motherboards and their features.

Right now, i5 is in my favour because of an awesome P55 matx mobo.

Welcome back caamsa ... youngster ... lol.

AMD punched up through $5 today ...

So much for the "AMD is doomed" folk here ...

I think AMD still has a few tricks up their sleeve ... not that I really know anything ...

I still think a decent really low voltage X2 with a 1Mb per core fast L2 and an L3 that can be switch off on the fly when idle is what AMD really need now to bundle with their platofrm approach for notebooks ... that market is theirs for the taking if they can push it along.

More to lose when it all goes pear shaped. All AMD need do is release one cpu that is faster than intels best and intel will lose billions upon billions, and thousands of jobs too no doubt.

That is all it takes, and is all it will ever take.

That's because ATIC (parent company of GF) is trying to buy Chartered, not because of anything AMD or GF have done.

However it was a nice gain for AMD stockholders .

That increase is from it's fab division.

Intel is introducing Core i5 and Core i3 for mid and value segments, which will give another blow to AMD's processor line-up. AMD does fail to introduce new technologies and architectures (as 45nm chips were supposed to be released on 2008, but at last it was on 2009) in the meantime Intel introduces architectures which keeps AMD behind. Is not AMD taking lessons?? Who knows....

I think AMD should present a technology like Hyperthreading which is revived in Core i7 and gives performance boost in many applications. Also more efficient architecture is a requirement.

From the beginning I am loyal to AMD. See the list of my system processors from 2000 to present:

K6-II, K6-III
Duron 750MHz
Athlon Thunderbird 1.3GHz
Athlon 64 3200+
Athlon 64 X2 6000+
Phenom II X4 940

But how long should I be loyal, as Intel is introducing far more efficient processors these days??

Please AMD, do you have any answer????

I have no idea what you're going on about fazers, but then again nothing new there

I am not registered with any other website except this one and considering how often i post here I'm not sure where i would find the time anyway.

Nice try though...if a bit weirder than usual.

You mean to say AMD had no say at all in the foundation of glofo...it was ALL to do with ATIC.






Right...who was going on about not being able to give credit where it was due? Oh wait it was TC not you

Also....didn't you say AMD's only hope was to negotiate a way out of the x86 licence with intel? Sounds a bit hollow now doesn't it? How many more $'s will AMD's share price jump when the next fab goes UAE?

Hey buddy! I hope you're doing well!

Yes, AMD stock was up, but it was actually related to GlobalFoundries purchase of Chartered, not with the i5 release. AMD's stock has been rebounding of late, it still has a way to go though, as it is down down 87% from it's highs in 2006, and still down 27% from it's high point last year. AMD still needs to break a profit, but it would seem investors of lately are feeling more confident as the price goes up.

I think the Core i5 is going to do more damage to AMD, in terms of both marketshare and also it's going to force AMD to lower some of their prices in the range of 10-20%. This is only further going to hurt their revenues.

AMD simply needs a new arch that can better compete with Intel, so they can sell their top binning chips for $1000 instead of $200 dollars.

AMD still has a lot of great chocies in the mid-range (~$200) and budget markets. Their video cards kick butt too and their early adoption of DX11 will probably make my next video card an AMD.


Take care caamsa!

I didn't have a developed opinion on it because I don't fully understand it and all the complexities. I do have concerns that they made this move to stay afloat financially, but if it works out for them in the long-run too that's great.

"chip in", lol. You're too punny!

Seems to me that Abu Dhabi & ATIC are the ones calling the shots, not AMD or GF.

Also, I now think ATIC is padding its investment by diversifying into non-x86 CPU fabs, just in case something bad happens to AMD . Such as losing said x86 license or perhaps filing Chapt. 11 sometime before the Luther Forest fab comes online. Really, it makes sense - I wouldn't want all my expensive new marbles in AMDs pockets which appear to have sizeable holes in them .

What do mean calling the shots? You think it went like this then...

ATIC - 'we're buying Chartered and no arguments!'

AMD - 'nono you can't do that, we don't need the fabs and increased overnight market share of 11%'

ATIC - 'we're buying the fabs AMD...now go get bulldozer made!'

AMD - 'okok, all hail the king of abu dhabi!'

Yeah, we're a bunch of jerks! We actually call people out on their lies and misrepresentations. Dang fact correction crew!

Just out of curiosity, what market did they increase their share of by 11%?

Actually I got that wrong, by Chartered joining I think the figure was 11% of all fabs in existence are now owned by ATIC/AMD.

Nope wrong again.

"The deal also means it can start increasing production straight away. Overnight Globalfoundaries will have over 11 percent of the global custom-chip market, whereas previously it was hardly even ranked."

So it was 11pc market share in global custom-chips.

Yeah, I still don't understand why shares jumped, but that's due to my lack of knowledge of how the relationships work. Good news for AMD is good news for consumers. I would much rather go back to the arrangement of where AMD and Intel kept one-upping each other with releases.

If AMD survives, anyone buying it below $10 is probably going to make A LOT of money. I know AMDFangirl (I think she bought around $2) is grinning ear to ear right now in Australia.

If you're trying to annoy me with the had\has stuff it's working, LOL. For some reason it's like nails on a chalkboard for me! Like I said, the wife's a teacher, and I blame her.

LMAO. ALL HAIL INTEL!



i5's Turbo!
It's Supurp-bo!
It rocks!
Don't call it "overclock"!
ALL HAIL INTEL!



I've gotta go to the bank and cash my Intel check now!

Wow, if english is your second language you type in it very well! I get lazy too on the interwebs as well, but I usually spell check my posts before sending, thank goodness for google toolbar!

Intel are evil.

It's not all that impressive TC, my natural language is Scots.

I could start typing in that though I doubt any of us would benefit lol. What I meant was, Scots have certain ways of saying certain things and we tend to carry it over to Standard English as well.

And yes, intel are evil, agree 100%.

You may have noticed a certain 'support the underdog' mentality also. That is something you will find ingrained in the minds of most Scottish people. Something to do with a big bully competitor nearby I think....

I believe Rangers and strangerstranger are also scottish...and also support AMD.

WOW, every time i check the thread i have to read through 4 pages of postings.

anyway it is very informative, therefore the benefits of making a troll title and troll topics works for a former noob like me, and current noob.

So AMD is still terminally ill with the disease called Intel lynnfield i5 750, they are going to need lots of kemotherapy and a miracle to get rid of this one.

I love AMD but I think the future for them is to focus on ATI and leave the CPU's as a side thing. Stop trying to beat Intel with CPU's and just beat Nvidia.

Lynnfield with ECC support:

http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/produ [...] ifications

X3400 series.