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I don’t think there’s any catch to it. AMD started again, went with a clean-sheet design, re-hired Jim Keller, then started under-cutting Intel with more cores
by jayflux 6y ago
I don’t think there’s any catch to it. AMD started again, went with a clean-sheet design, re-hired Jim Keller, then started under-cutting Intel with more cores and decent performance. It went from there really.
Unlike Intel who have micro improvements, each generation has been a big leap in performance so it’s been exciting for consumers.
Intel did something similar with their core2duos when AMD was on top around 12-13 years ago.
- forest_dweller 6y agoI still use a Core 2 Quad in a desktop I built in 2008 in my office (mainly because it has a proper floppy drive on it). Those processors were such a leap over the Athlon XP 3200+ I had before and it runs a Linux desktop perfectly fine.
- bicolao 6y ago> mainly because it has a proper floppy drive on it What are you using it for? Floppy disks were already very dead by 2008, let alone 2020.
- nitrogen 6y agoNot the OP, but some industrial equipment and musical instruments have floppy drives in them, and it may be cheaper and easier to keep an old desktop running than to retrofit the equipment. E.g. I have an old synthesizer I like that stores patches on floppy.
- forest_dweller 6y agoI have a few old retro computers and a usb floppy drive doesn’t cut it for Amiga and Atari floppy drives (some say it works online but I’ve tried several usb floppy drives and IME it does not). I know there are alternatives to using a floppy to transfer to these ancient systems but for me it works okay.