AMD plans to reduce workforce by 10%

[btarunr]

ther are 2 benches of nehalem i look tomorow of i can find them, why ur saying intel copying amd for intergrated memmory controller if so amd copyed IBM for intergrated memmory controller... but i could be wrong
and ddr3 wil drop in price end this year
btw nehalem wil remove the northbridge and i dont think amd is this far...

You're right. It's not about who copied who, it's about what they made of it. AMD still doesn't have a working prototype processor with a DDR3 controller. If someone calls it a "flicked from AMD", remind them, they use x86, SSE 1~4, MMX which are all technologies licensed from Intel. Besides, the concept of AMD integrating a memory controller isn't a patented technology (else we'd be in the middle of a legal battle).

And no, Nehalem doesn't remove NB. Remember that thread with the pics of the Intel Smackover board? It had an exposed NB for illustrative purposes. So yeah, the NB was present, though companies like NVidia could come up with a chipset consisting of just a single chip (the way it was with the NForce 500 (AMD) series (except 590 SLI) where the chipset consisted of a single chip).

 

[p_o_s_pc]

Back in the 939 FX days they did advertise regularly in WIRED magazine and such. Since then not so much... AMD look like it's going downhill... but not before I grab a 9850.

those 9850s look good. They can get nice overclocks from the looks of the reviews. that must be one thing that AMD fixed.Also that bug is fixed that is another good thing. Maybe the B3 stepping with help AMD out.