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Intel's Consumer Strategy Raises More than a Few Questions

Maybe the author needs to rethink his thoughts on AMD. How is it they are so terrible? What is this based on? Intel just dropped their graphics card venture, and we think their graphics on the cpu is going to be good? Anyone can throw a separate graphics chip on a piece of silicon, its been done for many years, AMD has done it in the past. Nvidia does it now in low power. AMD will have the first decent dual role chips, just like AMD first brought us over 1Ghz, higher FSBs and caches, DDR RAM, 64-bit cpus, integrated memory controllers, dual core processors, quad core processors, GDDR for graphics, and pushed x86 for the workstation/server/sup... setups making them affordable. And AMD is the only full system provider for high performance.

Dell Goes with Via for Ultra Energy Efficient Server

If its one thing VIA makes its no power stuff, so it may take 12 VIA servers pulling 30 watts each (180-360W) to do the work of one dual Quad Opteron system at 100-300 watts.