Intel let a competitor sneak into a market where they weren't before. Still, it was hard to believe that AMD would be able to maintain the kind of performance lead that they have enjoyed over the past one to two years.
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Certainly, the fact that you need to be using brand new hardware is a selling disadvantage out the door.
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It's probably not possible to be head and shoulders above the competition in the x86 space. There just isn't that much opportunity for being compellingly different. That said, they're nice boxes.
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By the middle of next year, we are going to be in a situation where Intel will have erased some of the functional gaps that they have had with AMD, ... By erasing the gap, Intel certainly has the opportunity to bring their much larger and better resourced manufacturing and development organization to bear.
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I don't think Microsoft had much choice in the matter. The bottom line is there is not a whole lot of market to buy that product from Microsoft.
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