And they were complaining....
“…guess that is one way of looking at it...”
To be reasonable, yes there are multiple views on this. Although AMD has proudly gone head-to-head with Intel over the years, now that Intel has taken another leap and have an equal/same product range and depth AMD wants to fain victimhood. Further, Nvidia dropped the ball distributing defective chips awhile back, tried to cover their tracks and were caught. Intel has stayed out of the aftermarket in low, mid, high video cards as other channel and consumer products; now that Intel has a chips that overshadow AMD products, and video integrated directly into Intel Motherboards, everyone is now concerned. Please remember, this type of story and press release is how media campaigns get rolling, especially with a predominately negligent verging complicit media.
AMD states the following at: http://www.amd.com/gb-uk/Weblets/0,,7832_10554,00.html
“technology for technology’s sake” is not the way we do business at AMD. Our history is marked by a commitment to innovation that’s truly useful for customers — putting the real needs of people ahead of technical one-upmanship. AMD founder Jerry Sanders has always maintained that “customers should come first, at every stage of a company’s activities.”
I meant to send a link about this — Cringely made a case last week that Intel settled with AMD in order to clear the way for its takeover of NVidia.
http://www.cringely.com/2009/12/intel-will-buy-nvidia/
Seems like a great idea for a topic, but maybe the source can’t be used.
“That would be Intel turning the tables yet again on AMD, which may have been suckered.”