{"id":162,"date":"2006-01-17T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=162"},"modified":"2006-01-17T18:43:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T22:43:00","slug":"athlon-demand-squeezes-amd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2006\/01\/17\/athlon-demand-squeezes-amd\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlon Demand Squeezes AMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eweek.com\/article2\/0,1895,1905152,00.asp\">Athlon Demand Squeezes AMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another AMD success story.  Apparently AMD can&#8217;t make enough Athlon 64 chips.  Their recent success leads me to beleive that Intel has spent too much on their new Apple tree.  So what if they made Mac laptops faster.  I still can&#8217;t afford one.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand AMD continues to align themselves with affordable 64 bit hardware manufacturers.  They&#8217;ve also aligned themselves with Sun for dual core servers which Intel has yet to approach.<\/p>\n<p>Intel&#8230; Mac&#8230; I can spell o-v-e-r-h-y-p-e-d.  And I can&#8217;t afford the hype.  For now I&#8217;ll just stay computer literate so I don&#8217;t have to buy a machine that&#8217;s dumbed down to keep me from accidentally breaking any mp3&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>Apple did do one thing right by using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extensible_Firmware_Interface\">EFI<\/a> by Intel .  The old PC\/AT BIOS retirement is way past due.  AMD better answer with a compatible equivalent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athlon Demand Squeezes AMD Another AMD success story. Apparently AMD can&#8217;t make enough Athlon 64 chips. Their recent success leads me to beleive that Intel has spent too much on their new Apple tree. So what if they made Mac laptops faster. I still can&#8217;t afford one. 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