Adrian Bolzan wrote:
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> I'm not too sure you this is a good argument, i.e. more money (i.e.
> profit) leads to more money on R&D. If we use Microsoft as an
> example...they have more money than other software companies yet their
> products are not necessarily as good as other's. An example is, of course,
> in the OS area. Also, as a researcher in the science field i can assure
> you that these days more money just means more profit for shareholders and
> does not lead to more money being spent on R&D.
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> just my 2cents worth... ;-)
>
You make a good point. However...in proportion to total revenues Intel
still has more money to spend on these activities than AMD. Intel also
does have better manufacturing facilities than AMD...and more of them.
Intel is also more profitable than AMD and Intel can and does recoup
their design and manufacturing costs faster than AMD.
Probably the biggest issue though really is manufacturing quality.
Intel is known, I don't think anyone will dispute this, for a great
quality chip, and that's really the thrust of my argument: that the
quality of the Intel chip is, on the average, higher than the quality of
an Intel chip. Case in point is that Intel produces a 450mhz PII. This
highest frequency chip that AMD produces is 350mhz.
I don't disagree with you that these companies are beholdin' to their
stockholders and that it's not necessarily true that more
profits/revenue necessarily lead to more money being spent on R&D
activities.
By the way....I have an AMD K6 300. :-) I happen to love the chip. I
don't game hardly at all, and the chip benches out nicely under both
Win98 and Linux. I currently have it running on an Abit TX5 with 64mb
of Corsair SDRAM, clocked at 68mhz (turbo mode <grin>) X 5, for a yield
of 342mhz. And stable I might add. That's the whole point to a little
performance gain: STABILITY. If it ain't stable it ain't successfull.
For what it's worth Linux Bogomips are 681.23 with this current setup.
Next will be a new motherboard. I need more RAM and the TX chipset only
effectively caches out 64mb. So I'm kinda locked here until I get a new
motherboard.
James
