From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 22 17:48:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from q.closedsrc.org (ip233.gte15.rb1.bel.nwlink.com [209.20.244.233]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F6837B43C for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:48:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lplist@closedsrc.org) Received: by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 1934255407; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by q.closedsrc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07D1D51610; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:42:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 17:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Linh Pham To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: "~/.signature" , Charles Burns , Subject: RE: the AMD factor in FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <000501c0cb76$a4a610a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2001-04-22, Ted Mittelstaedt scribbled: # No, what this is, is Intel sticking it to the folks that want to buy a P3 # to support cheaper prices on the Celery. This only works because Intel # has successfully propagandized the majority of IT people that are # purchasing CPU's for high-end servers and such, that the P3 is better than # the AMD chip. But, if those IT people catch on then the volume of P3s # will drop so far that they won't be able to get the money from P3 sales # to support Celery R&D and they will have to raise prices on the Celery to # pay for the R&D and drop prices on the P3 to keep from losing the market. Another reason why Intel [processors] have been so popular with IT is that Intel has been known to nudge companies who try to sell desktops and ``workstations'' with Intel and AMD processors. Micron and Gateway have been able to somewhat get AMD processors in their home desktops, but have a hard time getting AMD processors in corporate desktops. They don't raise the prices on the Celery, but rather not reduce them a lot each time they roll-out a price cut. There have been a lot of rumors that Intel will be making very large cuts to the Pentium 4 processors and discontinue lower-end Pentium III processors to force feed IT purchasers the Pentium 4. And thanks to Intel and Rambu$t's PR arm, poorly informed IT decision makers will shell out the money for Rambu$t memory (remember, you have to buy two sticks for each upgrade...) I think Intel and AMD are going to have a huge battle and uphill climb to keep (or gain) the processor-king crown. Via isn't helping out any either :) -- Linh Pham [lplist@closedsrc.org] // 404b - Brain not found To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message