James Knott wrote:
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
Intel and AMD won the CPU wars. (and the field can't be reduced below two, because every competent military purchasing department on the planet requires that all electronic components be "2nd-sourced" -- so if AMD fails, then Intel is cut out of that lucrative market until such time that another company is up and running as a "2nd source" of Intel-like CPUs -- This is why Intel keeps AMD abreast of their future designs -- if AMD can't duplicate Intel functionality, then Intel loses).
According to an IBM Linux presentation I attended a couple of years ago, IBM manufactures many CPU's for AMD. This means that even if AMD fails, the chips are still being made elsewhere.
Chips these days are designed using standard libraries, which make it easy for another company to start producing CPU's from a failed company.
IIRC, in the 64 bit world, it's Intel following AMD, not the otherway around.
Kind of ironic, isn't it. And AMD is generally less expensive, too. Other than this laptop I'm on, I've never owned an Intel CPU... my first machine was Cyrix, and then I switched to AMD. Intel has always had the worst price/performance evaluation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org