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Where AMD went right...
AMD's first right choice was to buy into Alpha's 200 MHz bus, which reduced the bottleneck that was long holding back the processor's potential. As they built more and more without making radical jumps like RD-RAM, or Pentium 4 architecture, or the Itanium for that matter, AMD began to garner trust from vendors, others began to piggy back on the trust.

Granted, AMD never really broke into their own as a leader of the processor market until the Athlon 64 was released. Yet during the early days of the Athlon when the Megahertz race was on, AMD managed to pull ahead on more than a single occasion.
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This is the *big* test for AMD  bidemytime | 05/30/05
This is revolution in Processors world  navdeep21 | 05/30/05
Great chip less heat.  jimk_z | 05/30/05
RE: Great chip less heat.  thetruth_z | 05/31/05
Where AMD went right...  nucrash | 05/31/05
Moore's Law is dead  Roger Ramjet | 05/31/05
You should learn Moore's law  nucrash | 05/31/05
I'm not sure about that....Moore actually said...  el1jones | 05/31/05
Bad information above.  gordon@... | 05/31/05
Correction  bobiroc | 05/31/05
more law  pesky_z | 05/31/05
Uhh point of contention here  Linux User 147560 | 05/31/05
Well....  nucrash | 05/31/05
The real news is IBM's Cell CPU  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/31/05
Not really.. it's another variant of the PowerPC  thetruth_z | 05/31/05
Sorry but no...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/31/05
Why the Cell will replace the PC  nucrash | 05/31/05
Couple corrections.  ShadeTree | 05/31/05
Yes, no and sort of.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/31/05
IBM already does the x86 handoff, well sort of...  nucrash | 05/31/05
Won't hurt MS at all...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/31/05
Considering the way they waste resources now....  nucrash | 05/31/05
Why does it matter?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/31/05
Internal buses & memory is NOT new!!  thetruth_z | 05/31/05
I suggest you do some reading....  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/31/05
AMD already did this!  zeusfuse | 05/31/05

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