Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70809/ 2009-11-23T11:04:19-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70809/ /images/halogo.gif text/html 2008-02-23T19:05:15-05:00 THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/70809/#0 Barcelona is name that Fell Giant. as Intel prepares 24 &amp; 32 core mainboard/processor combos for q3/4 of this year, AMD is stuck in quick sand of trying near impossible, multiple voltage planes on one processor. too bad, pricing has helped in meantime, with basic duel core set up fairly standard. Now AMD wants to farm out its manufacturing to tscm, so they will have to figure out impossible for amd.<br /> <br /> Why would amd do this. Its old time &amp; charges company gone public, maybe they have protected investment as much as possible &amp; with telcom rates at 5 cents minute worldwide, amd is about to diviate from standard &amp; make telcos all scramble for compatibilities. in fact, to become disruptive to mainstream market, that is 300$+ system. Who needs TOP stuff when its not out there. They need non compliant equipment to force new war on telcos everywhere, now that old war is done. its hardware war now, same as late 1950s bringing on tone dialing &amp; automatice time/charges from amd. again it will be hardware issue, as price e.g. charges are about as low as possible.<br /> <br /> Signed<img src="/images/smilies/smile5.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":P" title=":P">HYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.