After 15 years working in the PC industry I have some real different Ideas,I read all over the net AMD is in trouble really hum. IC it a bit differnet.
There was a time when Amd used the intel chipsets in the wayback,original pentium days.Intel didnt like this so they changed there socket and some legal stuff to stop AMD from using it.Amd got stuck with Via chipset ewwww,lockup crashes ect ,killed AMD due to the bad chipsets not the AMD processors.So finally AMd decided to make there own chipsets people were afraid of them due to the Via chipset problems.Amd couldnt really sell there chipsets(as AMD anyway)So what companys do is look for a name to market that chipset under,some company with a big name,thats known,like maybe Nvidia
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,so as the story goes,these chipsets become very popular,and all of a sudden AMD leads in preformance,the crashes are gone.The big I sees all this,and starts to wonder as there sales fall, AMD who already has a great deal going with one of the major Video card makers,buys the other one. they now have some control over the entire video card industry.They are selling chipsets under 2 names.The big I starts to feel the presure and has to pull out all stops,to stop the land slide that is about to happen to them.So they take the very best thing they have and throw it on the table,because they see there in a corner surrounded so to speak(even though they had it for years C2D aka pentuim pro)Thats right whats in the C2D is almost 13 years old,but back then it was only 166-200mh,but very very fasts.it later became Pentium M.Kinda like a 68 Vette and a 06 vette lot of things different but sill the same.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_Pro
There is more to the story,but Im sure this will start enough debate !!!