Which would you rather see suceed?

[zackbass]

Originally posted by Indus

Well architecture comes from different companies.. so I have to favor the company with the architecture I like.

Hmmm...an aspiring politician.

The architectures are somewhat incompatible. One has to win, one has lose, and then will probably devlop an architecture of thier own with the same instruction set as the architecture that won.

The cat-and-dog game between Intel and AMD is going to get some major changes sometime soon.

But obviously most people don't think of it this way. Hell how many people have even tried AMD/ Linux here? Don't get me started.

I have tried that combination. I still have my Linux installation sitting right here on my ol' Quantum Bigfoot 2.5gb HDD. Just waiting for the day that I have time to deal with Linux, and it won't be for a while. Too much work just to not be able to use every program I ever bought.

[Indus]

I have a feeling both architectures will succeed. They're able to do all things the mainstream user needs. So they'll be adopted by the people that like them. Now say something that future programs might be written for (SSE, SSE2, etc), the loser might adopt it in a later chip version and still not lose face. Like AMD adopted SSE in Athlon XP's and increased performance at the same time.

It might happen to Intel too, but I think both companies will be in business and competition for a long time to come. Atleast I hope they will but things are looking good for AMD with the hammer and that they're actually concentrating on getting .07 micron chips out sometime in 2004.