Monday, August 13, 2007
The secret of Intel's success !
Monopoly?. Well, say 43%.
Bigger production? Well say much less than 50%.
New architecture. No, 0%.
Barnum style marketing? Markting is very important to non educated people.
Introduction of new production processes in time? Yes, definitely yes. But, how?
What is Intel's secret weapon?
Intel has Oregon Development facility named D1D. What does it produce? Literally nothing.
It makes Intel's each new manufacturing process better, so the rest of production fabs make shorten introduction of the new processes. On the other side, that is AMD's weak point.
It needed the whole year to bring production yields to acceptable levels. That is
why AMD drove so long it established 90nm process. How AMD can cope with?
There is only one long time solution to counter with. Its name is LG.
Without fast volumes ramp, AMD will remain only successful engineering company.
Todays 3GHz Phenom Japan presentation gives Vista windows experience index 5,9 .
By definition here that means literally:
Level 5 PCs will dramatically exceed the Windows Premium logo requirements. They will easily run Aero-Glass on multi-monitor systems at high resolution. First person shooters, multiple HD streams, video creation, high end multimedia applications are all characteristic scenarios of people who will be using Level 5 systems. As Level 6 machines are not defined yet, it is possible that the highest performance and capable Level 5 machines may be re-leveled as level 6 in the future (i.e. that may happen if the new hardware is evaluated before the index is updated with the new capabilities).
However, just as success of one processor at market is not solely dictated by its performance, the Vista windows experience index isn't dependent on processor's but on overall system performance. And it is
dependent on its weakest component, whatever it is. However, usually processor is that weakest chain link.
Bigger production? Well say much less than 50%.
New architecture. No, 0%.
Barnum style marketing? Markting is very important to non educated people.
Introduction of new production processes in time? Yes, definitely yes. But, how?
What is Intel's secret weapon?
Intel has Oregon Development facility named D1D. What does it produce? Literally nothing.
It makes Intel's each new manufacturing process better, so the rest of production fabs make shorten introduction of the new processes. On the other side, that is AMD's weak point.
It needed the whole year to bring production yields to acceptable levels. That is
why AMD drove so long it established 90nm process. How AMD can cope with?
There is only one long time solution to counter with. Its name is LG.
Without fast volumes ramp, AMD will remain only successful engineering company.
Todays 3GHz Phenom Japan presentation gives Vista windows experience index 5,9 .
By definition here that means literally:
Level 5 PCs will dramatically exceed the Windows Premium logo requirements. They will easily run Aero-Glass on multi-monitor systems at high resolution. First person shooters, multiple HD streams, video creation, high end multimedia applications are all characteristic scenarios of people who will be using Level 5 systems. As Level 6 machines are not defined yet, it is possible that the highest performance and capable Level 5 machines may be re-leveled as level 6 in the future (i.e. that may happen if the new hardware is evaluated before the index is updated with the new capabilities).
However, just as success of one processor at market is not solely dictated by its performance, the Vista windows experience index isn't dependent on processor's but on overall system performance. And it is
dependent on its weakest component, whatever it is. However, usually processor is that weakest chain link.
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