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AMD Bears Continue To Emerge

Yeah exactly, real and updated facts:
Ist it seems that you give comments based on more than 3 month (or more) old information versus
this updated one:

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- December 28, 2006 --AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced a significant legal victory in its ongoing antitrust suit against Intel Corporation. In an order effective yesterday, the Federal District Court in Delaware overruled Intel’s objections and ordered it to produce documents and other evidence bearing upon Intel’s exclusionary conduct outside of U.S. borders.

II. this is just your opinion, and not Facts.
A. AMD ATI Synergies:
AMD announced an increase in its expectations of cost saving following the ATI merger, to $150 million in 2007 and $220 million in 2008. Originally, AMD has forecast savings of $75 million in 2007 and $125 million in 2008, according to Jefferies & Co. equity analyst John Lau, who attended the meeting

B/ another Award fesh from this week (Any Intel Award?)!

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- January 9, 2007 --The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has awarded a Technical and Engineering Emmy® Award to AMD (NYSE: AMD) for its industry-leading ATI Radeon™ 9700 technology. This award for Pioneering Work in Near and Real-Time fully programmable Shading via Modern Graphics Processors will be formally announced during an award ceremony at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 8, 2007, in Las Vegas.

III. Verify your source, it is worldwide known that Intel has used AMD 64 bit instructions and not the other way round ! Tto give you some information, When AMD disclosed their 64 bit instruction set, Intel added some specific microcode to their Pentium (but nobody could ude it , it was only for Intel Internal tests) just In case AMD would be successful ! since AMD solution became a standard, Inel then decided to make it useable on thei chips!

IV. What I said is that in some benchmarks the test were so marginally better that there is no need to mention it. The latest tests are even comparing products that you can hardly find in stores and done on Platforms who can use chips from both companies meaning mainly Intel oriented Platforms. AMD is working on an open initiative with major peripheral vendors :
"AMD 'Better by Design' Program Enables PC Manufacturers to Deliver Ultimate Solutions for Windows Vista(TM)" and everybody knows that Graphics from Nvidia and ATi are far superior to Intel Graphics and that Atheros or Broadcom Wireless are also Far superior to Intel Wireless.
customers will choose!
V. I agree, they have not left Intel, just given AMD a 20% MS, but Dell being with HP the world major player make your own deduction ;o)
VI. you add nothing to oppose on this one
VII. see award on point II. above and more to come!
VIII. no, AMD has mad Intel who they are. There were a lot of far better processors, when IBM decided to go with an Intel Based board and came to AMD to ask to second source them.
the 286 with the PC AT became a worldwide standard and was the inflexion point where Intel became monopolistic then with the 386. So yes, AMD made Intel what they are bringing credibility with a second source in front of a Mot 68K and then PPC which were recognized at the time a lot better architected.

XI. you may see APPLE look sooner to AMD than Dell did!

XII. I'll give you a "formula 1" example . you may have an excellent motor, but if you dont have good aerodynamics nor suspensions nor brakes, nor good pilot, then you loose the race !
It was also to show you that AMD was able to fight Intel products with One drawing technology difference.

XIII. read carefully what I write, I mention Core Duo and CORE 2 Duo
Yes hopefully you can run Vista64 on a Core2duo but all the customer who bought CoreDuo (notice the 2 is not written there) will not benefit of the 64 bit capabilities has they could with a turion64 and the turion64X2! Linux folks, were able to work on 64 bit standard machine from AMD a long long time ago.

All what I say is right and well informed, I wouldn't say the same for what you are assuming more driven by feelings, wishes or Intel PR.