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"People buying components NOW are exactly the sort of people AMD should be working their socks off to stop buying Intel parts." Err, for the people that matter
by DannyBee 10y ago
"People buying components NOW are exactly the sort of people AMD should be working their socks off to stop buying Intel parts."
Err, for the people that matter, they probably are.
I'm not sure why you would think otherwise.
Certainly you realize their large purchasers vastly dwarf people frequenting tech sites.
They 100% have done benchmarking/testing with, say, their top N chip purchasers, well before now, and already either have firm commitments to buy, or firm commitments to pass.
- smueller1234 10y agoNitpick: I'd like to point out that there's significant overlap between the two groups. To wit, I read hardware sites (from the realworldtech forum to anandtech and friends) and I've made 8 digit server hardware investment choices for work. This being said, the actual product focus between a typical core i7...K review and the mid range Xeons we've been purchasing are obviously not the same despite the similarity in architecture. We do get to do our own benchmarking, though. ;)
- DannyBee 10y ago"Nitpick: I'd like to point out that there's significant overlap between the two groups." Maybe. Maybe not. But in any case, none of the 8 digit purchasers i know care about when the review shows up on anandtech :)
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- oliwarner 10y agoThey're the people they should have been taking to months before release. And in all likelihood, they were. We're at the pointy end, now.