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Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by temetnosce »

stcredzero wrote: post #20
dmos62 wrote: post #4

That's a pretty good title, in a literary sense.

The term "woo" has been used in such contexts as far back as I can remember. It's quite apt, as it's an arrangement involving many variables, the subculture of a group of people, and relatively high stakes. It's not only applied to CEOs, but high value employees. (Of both genders, might I add. I seem to recall that it's even been applied to actual princes at times.)

I think the OP wanted to say that it rhymed and had the same number of syllables per line.

Will Headless Intel Woo

AMD's Lisa Su

Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by Syzygies »

cmsj wrote: post #27

Why would Dr Su leave a company that is on a massive upswing, for one that has been stuck in a rut for years?

Lisa Su has a PhD in electrical engineering from MIT. She's not a medical doctor.

One sees the "Dr." moniker used by insecure lesser educational institutions. No self-respecting MIT PhD goes by doctor, unless they're an MD/PhD.

That "Doctor" all over her intro was a code smell I wasn't expecting.

Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by okl »

murphy214 wrote: post #30
TheOperator wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to have been sleeping to think Lisa Su only became a star at CES 2019. Rumours of Intel acquiring AMD strike me as outlandish. I have doubts such a merger would even be approved given the monopolies that Intel would gain.

Monopoly? They would still be getting absolutely destroyed in the mobile market?

By whom? VIA?

Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by jandrese »

okl wrote: post #33
murphy214 wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Monopoly? They would still be getting absolutely destroyed in the mobile market?

By whom? VIA?

Qualcomm presumably.

But the FTC might view the mobile market as separate from the desktop market and block a merger between Intel and AMD.

Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by jandrese »

coffekaesque wrote: post #17
digitalzombie wrote: post #10

No please. I do not want a monopoly in x86. Intel is very greedy in their cpu prices. Their consumer cpu never gave the option of ecc memory and have gimp certain things. AMD was more flexible. Having two company competing will be great for the consumers.

If they could get away with it I think it would be worse than mobile games monetization https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-char... https://i.imgur.com/FTrP0gy.jpg

Hopefully the dismal failure of that scheme the first time around will discourage them from trying it again.

Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by zozbot123 »

digitalzombie wrote: post #10

No please. I do not want a monopoly in x86. Intel is very greedy in their cpu prices. Their consumer cpu never gave the option of ecc memory and have gimp certain things. AMD was more flexible. Having two company competing will be great for the consumers.

> I do not want a monopoly in x86.

Strictly speaking, x86-64 patents must be about to expire anyway - the first Intel EM64T implementation (which can be assumed to be fully compatible even with modern-day software--IIRC the original AMD64 ISA had some unfortunate quirks which make this less likely) is from 2004. So, it's only a matter of time until we see compatible x86-64 CPUs from other vendors.

Re: Will Headless Intel Woo AMD’s Lisa Su?

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Post by jandrese »

jfk13 wrote: post #24
ahartmetz wrote: post #8

Ugh. The last thing CPU customers need is Intel without proper competition again. What Su is doing at AMD seems almost superhuman.

Perhaps the ARM world could still provide some competition.

In the x86 market? That seems like a bit of a stretch for them.
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