[ale] ot: cpu laptop

[David Tomaschik]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:29 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ouch.
>
> AMD is not doing well. After kicking Intel in the teeth a decade ago
> with the Opteron they ran into build issues, stumbled, and have never
> recovered their momentum. They still don't have a PCIe v.3 capable
> chipset. It's been 4+ years since PCIe v.3 came out. That alone will
> kill them in the server market.
>
> Their consumer cpu's are still a better bang for buck line-up than Intel
> but they can't sell enough of what looks like last year's technology to
> the gamer crowd or the business box buyer.
>
> I don't expect to see them around in 2020 and that will be a bad thing.
>

FWIW, AMD cpus power both the Xbox One and the PS4, so they have *some*
successful products still.


>
> On Mon, 2015-03-30 at 13:21 -0400, Boris Borisov wrote:
> > Today in microcenter i didn't see any AMD based laptop ...
> >
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