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Old 28th April 2009
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The Phenom II and Shanghai Opteron CPU's are a good competition for the Intel Core 2 and Xeon CPU's, and usually at a cheaper pricetag too.
If I would buy a new PC, I would probably buy an AMD.

However, AMD has nothing even close to the i7, and I don't expect they will have anytime soon (And by that time Intel is faster again, tick/tock).

Half a year ago we were still selling a few AMD desktop systems, now we are selling almost none. For server systems it's even worse, almost like Opteron doesn't even exist.

I'm not saying one computer store is representative for the entire world, but from where I'm sitting, it doesn't seem to go very well with AMD...

As a general note, I think more competition on the CPU (And GPU) market would be a (very!) good thing ...
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