Do your homework before submitting such a stupid comment. 

Moore's Law, states that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years. And Intel has kept that pace for nearly 40 years.

Proof: Tukwila. The World's First 2-Billion Transistor Microprocessor is targeted for production towards the end of 2008.

I'd say thats on par with Moore's Law.


Intel hasn't kept up with Moore's law in years. So AMD hasn't, bfd.

So what has the analyst Hans Mosesman's comments about AMD's technology got to do with the wining and dining that AMD apparently does to journalists?

and I LOVE the grammatical wit here. It's what makes th'Ink worth coming back to time and again, and what makes them un'Inq.

...dummies!

and here was I thinking "compliant" (as in NDAs). the old "lisdexic switcheroo!"

BTW, Mike Magee, fabellent milling about!

Spinning off their manufacturing arm is what AMD should have done three years ago. They are now late in the game because Samsung has already done so and AMD is not going to be a cutting edge independent foundry. So they will be cluttering up the foundry market but with nothing new to offer...

However, spinning off the fabs would cut their cap ex way down and AMD's strong suit really is IC design. This move will reflect well in quarterly business reviews.

Surely everyone is aware that AMD doesn't have as much money to throw around freely as Intel does, plus that's why their CPUs tend to retail cheaper than Intels.

AMD have offered consumer retail 64 bit chips for a while now, and Opterons are still popular with high-end servers and HPC....it's healthier when there's not only the one choice of manufacturer in any product area, and - I reckon anyway - history has shown many an example in technology, when business-only decisions spell disaster for the industry as a whole.

People that only think in terms of profit don't tend to know what matters in coming up with the goods in science and engineering; many of them aren't even end users or customers of what they 'advise' on.

Anyway, what CPUs were used to crunch those figures, hmmmmm? I'll bet it wasn't a calculator doing all the number analysis.

It reminded me of the bit in the movie Super Troopers where they pull over a motorist and try to use a word (I believe it was "meow" instead of "now") the most times. I found it hard to follow the meat of the article. Less grammatical wit and more sound journalism please.

I thought complaisant was supposed to be compliant not complacent.
I'm confused.

Did you have an office bet to see how many times you could shoe-horn the word into your article? Using some french derived version of the word? That was annoying.

When he says 'complaisant' he means crooked. Which explains how 'straight journalists' is not a homophobic slur but rather a literal opposition to the metaphorical 'crooked'.

Now that Vista SP1 incorporates needed updates to run nvidias' Sli Hybrid, Nvidias' scores are jumping up on two feet. This leaves ATI somewhat behind, although Crossfire X is good, two Nvdias' are better.

Why Not Step Up With Nvidia by using Nvidias' Phys-X technology on ATI? Two would converge good technology & market better off.

Phys-X/Crossfire X, its game of Xes & Oes, at least according to Trisha Yearwood.
Thomas Drashek