AMD Pokes at Intel With Valentine's Day Gifts
That Sandy B. is a heartbreaker.
Tech companies often send swag to journalists as part of their promotional efforts. Apparently AMD has been sending out some special items for Valentine's Day that poke at Intel's troubles with Sandy Bridge.
We didn't receive any of these items from AMD, but Cnet did and thankfully they blogged about them.
AMD sent an "I (heart) APU" ceramic mug that read:
Dear Dan,
I heard that Sandy B. broke your heart and wanted to let you know that I'm here for you. Oh, and I have a cousin from Llano, Texas I'd like to introduce you to soon--I think you two will really hit it off!
XOXO,
AMD Fusion APU
AMD also sent a box of chocolates. They weren't exactly shaped like processors, which would have been cool, but it's still nice to get gifts for Valentine's Day.


now that is amazing marketing without attacking someone.
niiiice.
now that is amazing marketing without attacking someone.
niiiice.
lol
AMD can send as many gag gifts as they want, but if they don't get their act together, their gonna lose their desktop consumers.
They just paid AMD 1.5billion and now they just made a boo boo with Sandy Bridge that's gonna cost at least another 1billion.
Now AMD is selling 50% more product due to Intel's screwup.
So who's laughing all the way to the bank?
I think if you look at stock prices you will see Intel is still laughing all the way to the bank.
Prediction 1: the AMD in question is a slightly slower per-core clock speed than the Intel, and the test was single-threaded.
Prediction 2: the AMD was a heck of a lot cheaper than the Intel
Prediction 3: Intel will continue to NOT sell GOOD processors for CHEAP, and I will continue to buy AMD as a result
LOL
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I mean they has always been cooler than Intel