salimma's Journal: AMD is dead, long live AMD

How's that for a catchy subject line? It's not that AMD is dead - Opteron/AMD64 is probably its best line of CPU ever. For the first time AMD does a big innovation (x86-64) and executes it well (show up hands if you were excited by pre-release K5 and K6 only to be disappointed when benchmarks came out).

But AMD has got to improve its distribution network in Asia! For the price of an Athlon64 3200+ in Malaysia and Indonesia you could get a dual-capable Opteron Stateside, representing a premium of about 100%, compared to the normal premium for Intel CPUs of about 10%.

Similar situation with motherboards, though less extreme: the MSI K8T retails at $175 here, as opposed to $128 in the States (37% premium).

At this price I could visit my friends in Singapore, do some tech shopping there, and came back!

And when you do drop by Sim Lim,

[The Cydonian]

do remember to drop me an email. We could, perhaps, meet. :-)

Re:And when you do drop by Sim Lim,

[salimma]

Sure will do :) Any chance you'd have ended your procrastination on one of your planned write-ups [slashdot.org] - especially b) and d) ?

Re:And when you do drop by Sim Lim,

[The Cydonian]

For d), you can always read the longer, post-modernist, official [nus.edu.sg] version already. :-) You might get the (planned) shorter version on K5, and perhaps here, any day after Feb 2, which is the deadline for (a).

As for b), let's just say you can google-whack [google.com] with it already. :-)