AMD Market Share Drops

who the hell is actually not buying an AMD

I figured they woulda had at least a 40% marketshare

No kidding, people are so brainwashed with that fact that mhz = speed. Bright move by Intel though, AMD had them owned when P4's first came out, but now with Northwood, it's quite the opposite.

Yup, the Thunderbird core is about done, now it's Hammer time.

Speaking as someone who is a statistic (AMD to Intel), a better selection of stable chipsets and REDUCING THE DAMN HEAT OUTPUT would probably help a bit.

Who are we kidding.... It's all about the OEM deals.

AMD stock is trading at $6 now... I remember buying it at $20(Thank god I got out at $29) they may be really fucked. Business/government is the largest market and Intel dominates that.

"Hopefully the Hammer introduction next year will help AMD"

Isn't the Opteron / Hammer / 64bit CPU supposed to be aimed at the Corporate / Enterprise market? Undoubtedly, it will run 32bit instructions very well, but the cost and availability could be an issue. Moreover, I think I remember reading somewhere that the PGA is twice that of current Athlons; if so, an Enermax 550W might be needed.......

What really hurts is that 3-4 weeks ago or so, their stock price was at 3.10 a share, now they're at 6.10, and was around 6.30 yesterday or so. You could have DOUBLED your investment! SHIT

AMD needs to revoke Via's lic. to build chipsets for their CPU's. It seems like nearly all the complaints regarding AMD (minus the CPU@100 deg. idle bitch) are just buggy/problematic chipsets/drivers from VIA. I have never heard anyone bitch who has the AMD chipsets. My previous 2 systems were Athlon XP's OC'd ~200-300mhz, my current system is a P4 1.6@2.4Ghz with stock cooling. You wont see that (800Mhz) with any AMD chip so they better get to Hammer quick, I wont even look at AMD again until Hammer arrives.

I've been an AMD fan for a long time

i sure hope this doesn't affect them too much =(

Maybe the fact that they have tarnished their reputation with excessive paper-launching?
I'm just hoping NVidia doesn't do the same.

I find this hard to believe, 4 years ago... nobody even talked about AMD. Now it seems like people still talk about them more then ever. Especially people my age where the difference in CPU price doesn't justify spending more money.

is "megahurtz" some goofy brit spelling i'm not aware of, or is this yet another striking example of informed tech journalism?

The first of the Hammer chips is pretty much final silicon now. It seems that they're working on having a solid set of developer tools with support. AMD's community support is pretty cool. They've had a set of specs for all their new hardware and a devlopment forum (http://www.x86-64.org/) almost since the official product announcement.

They're still a good company with a solid product. Hopefully that'll be enough.

That's a real shame.

I built Intel systems for years and decided last time to build an AMD system. It was *easily* the easiest and most stable system I've ever built. Really, really nice.

I would be hard pressed to leave AMD. Really happy customer!

I wonder if it's not the fact that a lot (A LOT) of ppl bought AMD before just because they were so easy to overclock the Athlons with a simple pencil. Granted the XP's can still be overclocked, but that extra step of filling in the grounding trench is much harder than before and I think that most people looking for that extra bit of performance will just buy a 1.6 P4 and FSB overclock it to 2.13 and be done with it.

Amd got a lot of support in the past from overclockers, gamers etc..., but lately it just doesn't seem worth the prices to go to amd, and the fact that VIA sucks isn't helping them much either. I personally use SIS chipsets now with AMD, and I'm glad to no longer be spending my hours trolling forums looking for sound-loop fixes and such. Nowadays I spend my time gaming rather than tweaking/optimizing/fixing my AMD system. P4's are just rock solid. Just my 2 cents of course. Fire away.

Almost 10% drop, that's pretty bad...
I guess a lot of it has to do with the success of the Northwood, and AMD might have bet too much on consumer loyalty...

No sympathy. Quit dawdling on the Hammer. Jesus.