Dean McCarron Quotes (7 Quotes)

By contrast, AMD has a single road on their map. At some point in the future, everything they manufacture will be 64-bit, and the technology will proliferate down from servers into PCs.

The first quarter of the year is always seasonally slower, so there's no real surprise there. Adding to that, Intel offered some really good deals on chips in the fourth quarter, so computer makers bought more than they needed and stocked up -- and they're working through that inventory. At the same time you've got AMD taking some share away.

What I would fully expect would be that the Celerons would be based on the previous generation cores as long as was possible. Ironically in the end it all makes sense. It's being built with an older manufacturing process. There's not a big motivation to use the latest tech for that class of part.

This is the first major architectural change they've done in about five years, and it should result in them being significantly more competitive.

Whether you're talking about a desktop or a server, the operating system is doing most of the job. The application just tells the operating system to go do something, so anything you do to make the operating system faster makes the whole process faster.

Intel constantly plows money into RD and new production capabilities. The smaller firms just can't compete on their own, so alliances make sense.

These things will show how they are working to make PCs fit better into the home entertainment universe.