| cusman said: Why shouldn't AMD bow out from a space temporary or otherwise when they are not being competitive in that space? They have been successful at providing graphic cards to game consoles. They have been unsuccessful in the PC CPU space. Whats wrong with Intel? They became stagnant and complacent started facing competition from AMD. Then they stepped it up and more recently have done nothing but truely stellar hardware and great prices. Their on-board graphics chips have also been getting better and they have also innovated important consumer focused features. All the MacBooks and iMacs are now running on Intel chips. Is the concern that Intel has no competition? Well just look at what the iOS devices are running on... not Intel but rather ARM. AMD is getting squeezed out by both Intel and ARM. ARM is the bigger competitor to Intel. Companies compete, innovation takes place and consumers benefit. Please forget about product/brand loyalty. May the best product for the right price always win. |
I agree with you here for the most part and there is definitely no brand loyalty on my end.
The concern comes from the aspect of R&D and pricing. Enthusiasts like myself want companies like Intel to dump money in to R&D and find ways of making CPUs more powerful. With AMD out of the high end consumer market, they will simply coast in the high end market segment and release 5-10% incremental upgrades. Also if the next gen of Intel CPU's is unchallenged the sheer demand for their products will drive the price up. 300-400 dollars per unlocked CPU instead of 200-300 will be the norm.
In terms of AMD, they are doing some excellent work on the APU side. Intel really doesn't have an answer there yet. They are also on the cusp of announcing production of ARM server and presumably consumer chips which should be very interesting for the mobile market. I don't see them going away...just stepping back from the high end consumer enthusiast market.
