What Went Wrong for AMD's AM2? 318
An anonymous reader writes "When AM2 was first announced it seemed like it was going to be a guaranteed hit. After all, this platform would be moving the tremendously successful socket 939 into the future with its use of DDR2 memory, a greatly increased memory bandwidth, hardware virtualization, and a number of exciting new CPUs. Despite everything AM2 had going for it, this includes a dedicated enthusiast base and a tremendous amount of pro-AMD spirit at the time, the new platform has largely been dismissed by consumers. The question now is, what happened? How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?"
Re:Three words (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, that's only two words (and a number).
Re:Asked, answered. (Score:2, Funny)
With that in mind, I no longer pick my processors or video cards based on brand loyalty.
Congratulations. You've made the very hard jump from consumer to capitalist.
There are other companies, like many GNU/Linux developers, GNU/Linux distributors, and Google, that HAVE done favors for me and that actually warrants loyalty.
Careful. You're slipping.
Re:2 things: price / speed, speed / power consumpt (Score:3, Funny)
To me, as a perl coder, 4x4 means 4444.