Re: AMD offers no motherboard: why?

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 06:48:07 GMT, "tony" <tonynews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Tony Hill" <hilla_nospam_20@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:smjav1ppqu28pc9of584qe15g1q6an2fp6@xxxxxxxxxx
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006 03:41:37 GMT, "tony" <tonynews@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"David Kanter" <dkanter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1139776439.571949.27920@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You do
know that Athlon64/Opteron aren't tied as tightly to the chipset as is
Intel. How much money does Intel make selling chipsets?

I don't really know, nor do I really care. AMD's not in a position to
get back into the chipset business.

With CPUs being pretty much passe (pretty soon I'll be making them too in my
garage/basement? ;) ),

??? If anything it seems that the exact opposite is true, CPU
production seems to be continuously consolidating into a few
companies. Really it's down to just AMD, Intel and IBM at the high
end, with the possible addition of Fujitsu/Sun (who are in the process
of consolidating themselves). Some others like Toshiba and NEC are
carving out some niches, and there are still LOTS of players in the
embedded microcontroller market. However high-end CPUs are anything
but passe.

To the few who buy at the high end. Everyone else couldn't care less.

By "high-end CPUs" I'm including things like Semprons and Celerons.
While they're low cost as compared to the Athlon64 FX line and P4
Extremely Expensive Edition, they're still built using pretty similar
technology. Basically every CPU that AMD and Intel build for PC
purposes is high-end when compared to most of the IC market.

some diversification seems prudent for AMD. Harder
to do if they're not in the chipset/MB/platform business.

Diversification can sometimes be beneficial, but often it's not. More
often than not it seems that specialization is often the way to go.

Specialize on processors? These days? Sounds like a losing game in these
days of GUI terminals and the imminent maturing of virtualization technology.

Let me know when that imminent maturing occurs, though I suspect that
both you and I will be rather old when it occurs.. I have to use a
remote server and a GUI terminal (Citrix) for a lot of stuff at work,
and it is utter crap. I really don't want to do the same thing at
home!

All we need is some good software and there will be an abundance of leftover
MIPS (don't hold your breath for that though, 3D everywhere, all the time
promises to slow down computers once again). The marketing of unnecessary
"3D everywhere" is probably Intel/AMD's only saviour in the workstation
space ("desktops" are now terminals). "Hey look! I can rotate my browser
window sideways!". Give me a break, seesh.

I'm actually rather excited about some of the new things that 3D
desktops might allow. The current 2D paradigm seems to be getting a
bit long in the tooth and it may well be time for some real innovation
that helps us get things done more easily. After all, we do live in a
3D world.. why not work in one as well?

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Tony Hill
hilla <underscore> 20 <at> yahoo <dot> ca
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