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The Real State of AMD

I read this piece, and I have to reply because it’s just so . . . wrong . . . about AMD and where it stands, and where it may go. “Let’s Make A 3GHz Processor!” The primary point of

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What Are You Thinking Now?

On Saturday, we spoke about the introduction of Winchester chips, the upcoming introduction of 90nm Semprons, and some likely or at least possible additional moves we may see in the months ahead. Given all that, it’s pretty hard to make

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Dual Musings

The world is abuzz with the talk of dual-core and multi-core processors and what this could mean. Salespeople look at it as a new big thing to pitch at people to get them to buy new computers. Intel and AMD

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90 All Over

90nm Newcastles Show Up Next week, most of us ought to see the 90nm Winchesters available for sale. One place apparently already has them, but they pushed up the price $15/$25 from the pre-sale prices once they had them. Should

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The Other Shoe Drops

AMD announced its equivalent of Lagrange yesterday as its part of the Trusted Computing Group’s efforts to bring hardware-based DRM to PCs. Oh, of course, that’s not what AMD wants you to figure out. From XBit Labs’ account, it must

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A Talk With An Intelvert

Every once in a while, we talk about AMD fanatics (whom we call AMDroids). There is an Intel equivalent to an AMDroid. We call such people Intelverts. We don’t talk much about Intelverts because they hardly write to us at