> Intel squeezed AMD very hard with a lot of "Merced" hype, and look what happened.
Intel started taking market share back from AMD when they returned to delivering CPUs with better $/performance, and $/watt/performance, in 2007. While AMD was building better mousetraps, they steadily took market share; nobody outside of HPC was taking IA-64 seriously beyond about 2004 anyway.
Intel started taking market share back from AMD when they returned to delivering CPUs with better $/performance, and $/watt/performance, in 2007. While AMD was building better mousetraps, they steadily took market share; nobody outside of HPC was taking IA-64 seriously beyond about 2004 anyway.