AMD's APU's. Actually Pretty Useful....

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blackaeronaut wrote:

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CattyNebulart wrote:

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The problem is that AMD had some bad breaks and intel managed to outpace them again...

You know, I often times wonder what AMD might have been like if people in the right places had caught onto Intel's bullying their customers into exclusively using their chips in their products.  It really did hurt AMD back in the day (to the point that they nearly did go out of business), and at times I still have trouble trying to find a good AMD option when I shop around for laptops and desktops.

Ars Technica seems to think AMD's failure had more to do with poorly timed acquisitions, building too many fabs, and a lack of a coherent strategy.  Not that Intel didn't do nasty stuff to AMD above and beyond normal competition, but a lot of AMD's problems were self-inflicted.
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