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TerraMex · 02-11-2003, 06:57 PM

>I would argue that it would be more profitable now than to let
>them collect dust in a warehouse and depreciate in real value

That depends. Lets say they wait a few months, have more hammers ready, have mobo's for them, a flood the market at a relative good price. With both hammer cores. Combined with a 64bit OS, it'd be a killer. But that's the best case scenario.

Now they'd sell some (dunno about 50k but im no sales expert) , but never with a large impact. And you need motherboards for them, probably with DDR-II to take advantage of the built in memory controller and built in NB. You need a manufacturer to make those mobos... and DDR-II wont come out till the end of this year. And the problems can go on. Just to say its not that linear.

And well ... AMD stated that they are no longer trying to top Intel at every processor. They'll be releasing the processors "when its done". At least they have a sense of humor.

Anyway, if the hammer could be shipped, i think we might have seen a few around. Assuming it cant, then amd (and us) are stuck with barton for the next few month.

02-11-2003, 06:57 PM	#25
TerraMex Cooling Savant Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portugal, Europe Posts: 870	>I would argue that it would be more profitable now than to let >them collect dust in a warehouse and depreciate in real value That depends. Lets say they wait a few months, have more hammers ready, have mobo's for them, a flood the market at a relative good price. With both hammer cores. Combined with a 64bit OS, it'd be a killer. But that's the best case scenario. Now they'd sell some (dunno about 50k but im no sales expert) , but never with a large impact. And you need motherboards for them, probably with DDR-II to take advantage of the built in memory controller and built in NB. You need a manufacturer to make those mobos... and DDR-II wont come out till the end of this year. And the problems can go on. Just to say its not that linear. And well ... AMD stated that they are no longer trying to top Intel at every processor. They'll be releasing the processors "when its done". At least they have a sense of humor. Anyway, if the hammer could be shipped, i think we might have seen a few around. Assuming it cant, then amd (and us) are stuck with barton for the next few month. __________________ "we need more cowbell."