I worked out the problem with AMD...
"Failure due to No Execute bit" ;)
It's been down hill since then.

Keep in mind too that AMD still has some momentum left over that is hard to shake in the retail sector.

The average Bust Buy/Circuit City customer goes to buy a computer and all they know is that they heard from someone some time ago that AMD was the cpu to buy and not to believe that salesman.

Intel had momentum going for them during the height of the P4 debacle.

For the most part, if the price is right and it will send an email, all is fair in love and CPU markets.

Does it surprise anyone else that AMD is continuing to take share from Intel as it has for most of the quarters of the last 4 years, despite Intel's current strength in "enthusiasts" products?

When you sell your chips for 1/2 the price, it's harder to make a profit, but it does make for many friends in the biz.

What's important to the OEM's is that AMD's X2's and Turions X2's are popular, efficient, and most importantly very inexpensive to manufacture.

Plus

Sounds good, now execute!

i wonder if they fix with the B3 revision the problem with "performance"
:))
But seriously B3 will have the same affect as the bios update (-10%)?but being fabricated in You can't removed

did he say twice as many chips this year, so thats 400,000 they shipped last year? Ya right, lies, lies.