What was that like a decade ago? Whats awesome is at this point AMD pays intel for rights and intel pays amd.... lol i love business. Real problem with Intel is the lawsuits they wage just to beat down competitors. Of course Apple is king of that these days and they have more bank roll than most.
AMD had not invented a new processor since the Athlon 64 until Bulldozer. The Phenom II was little more than a really big Athlon 64. The A64 was AMD's crowning achievement and sadly no one who was involved with it works for the company anymore. The people there now are somewhere between incompetent and beat down by current management. They won't fail as a company but if the current board is not ousted then maybe they need to fail so they can be restructured. When a company refuses to use industry standard tools and practices and opts for cheap and fast but inferior methods to get things done it has a bad effect. Its not the fault of the engineers but their supervisors.
Eitherway politics and fanboyisms won't get you a more powerful machine. Either you wan't whats best or you want to stick to your feelings. AMD should have done an 8 core Phenom II on a smaller process until Bulldozer could be improved and that would have been pretty decent. Bulldozer theoretically is superior and support is improving to help it match up. But dual threading aside core for core clock for clock Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge rape. If AMD's design was ripped off surely they can at least match Intel? But that was 2007ish and the architecture has changed massively. Truth is any company can if they have the licensing and the will. AMD employees seem to have had the will beat out of them. One day.... the idiots running that company will be gone.
