About what lol? I didn't wait 9 months for a subpar product and enjoyed my SB while people waited and claimed BD would just crush it anyway. Glad to see that worked out.
Asinine or not , There has even been talk from AMD stating they were not going to be giving as much attention to desktop CPU'S and going after the laptop market more aggressively . So really ? asinine ? Not from were I am standing it is not . Just look at there CPU market vs there GPU market . To me AMD has the best GPU on the market Hands down the best ! JMHO . So call me what you will the way I see things is just the way I see them . Sure BD is a good CPU but far from what EVERY one expected EVEN Intel expected much better !
AMD stated they were no longer going to try and compete head to head in the high-end desktop CPU market with Intel--an area they haven't been competative in since 2005-6 anyway. The belief is that AMD will continue to cater to the price\performance segment they have been for the past 2-3 years. They are also probably going to try and capitalize on the APU market they have found reasonable amounts of success with.
As for comparing what they've done with their CPU and GPU lines, you have to remember AMD took a chance, and it didn't really pay off. They are trying to push products that only really shine in heavily threaded applications, which in this day and age just aren't common. Any program that uses more than about 3 threads is probably Work Station oriented anyway, and Intel's high-end offerings with their superior per-thread performance crush AMD when it comes to said software.
I would also say although AMD has competative GPU's, they aren't necessarily the best. Nvidia still has a lot of market share, and continues to offer competative products in terms of price\performance. There's also the looming issue of chronic Driver-related problems with AMD\ATi cards. I love my HD5850, but updating drivers sucks something awful.
Say any thing bad about AMD and the FANBOYS get pissed off . I am just calling it as I see it is all . Good or bad it seems strange that they have the best of the best video cards I have ever seen . nVidia is having a hard time IMHO keeping up with AMD/ATI !
