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Your view on AMD's Bulldozer
AnimeJanai:
--- Quote from: Lupin ---Niche products doesn't carry a company. Volume products does. Retail sales are already small compared to volume ones.
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The context was about economics and volume. Some may assume the case of a company creating a niche product, but I was not talking about that. There is the standard economics situation of a company's product, flagship or not, occupying a market niche. That was what I was referring to by niche product.
AMD will eventually find more competitors from CPU companies created by other major countries that have military or commercial worries about Intel CPUs being able to be turned off involuntarily by remote control. Those countries will have to control chip design and fabrication from beginning to end. That is why China had embarked on an "independent" CPU development program about 8 years ago when the concept of CPUs being turned off by your military or embargo opponent reared its ugly head. I wouldn't be surprised that China eventually manages to steal a complete design plan from either Intel or AMD. Once it does that, it will have a competitive CPU for chinese motherboards that can be marketed for laptops and prepackaged PC workstations. The threat of such a copied CPU would harm AMD more than Intel.
kureshii:
http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/11/bulldozer-server-benchmarks-are-here-and-theyre-a-catastrophe.ars
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5058/amds-opteron-interlagos-6200/5
Not a pretty picture all round, but at least they're still ahead in price/performance (if we set aside power consumption considerations).
per:
--- Quote from: kureshii on November 22, 2011, 08:26:55 AM ---Not a pretty picture all round, but at least they're still ahead in price/performance (if we set aside power consumption considerations).
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Unfortunately, for any large server farm power usage is more important than the one-time purchasing cost.
AnimeJanai:
The power issue multipled by the sheer numbers of processors sucking up power in the country makes you wonder if the EPA will regulate CPU power usage. The EPA already regulates many other energy consuming devices right now. Bush made the Energy Star less fashionable and I hope it makes a comeback in peoples' minds about its contribution to the health of the country. Ah well, it's a futile wish anyways. People don't care unless it hits their wallet.
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kitamesume:
cant wait to see those Xbox die out of power consumption, oh and i wonder what their sales would be for the next few months on their bulldozer segment.
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