AMD is the Buster Douglas of Tech

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The Register has an article that describes an event this week in the UK in which is celebrated its EPYC and Ryzen CPUs that are showing up in Lenovo products. AMD portrayed itself as Buster Douglas, complete with a boxing robe clad John Hampton, AMD's Worldwide Director of Commercial and Client Sales. If anyone has a video of this, please please please drop me a link via email.


AMD helpers then ran a video showing Douglas fighting Tyson and getting floored in the fourth round, only to pull himself up before the bell and go on to become the first heavyweight to actually defeat Tyson in the tenth round. This was one of the biggest shocks in boxing history.

"Can you see where we are going with this?" Hampton asked. "Just like Buster Douglas, AMD got up again, we got back in the gym and kept swinging.

"The Street has embraced us, [so have] the customers and the channel," he added.

What the AMD exec didn't feel pressed to explain was that following his momentous win, Douglas went on to have one title defence fight over an eight-month space in which Evander Holyfield whooped his ass. Douglas then retired.
 
So it beat the champ once then promptly got obliterated by an opponent with more skill and determination?

Yeah, don't be like Buster....
 
Bigdady92 said:
So it beat the champ once then promptly got obliterated by an opponent with more skill and determination?
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Let's be fair now. Buster Douglas only notched one win. AMD is up to a whopping two wins after Ryzen.

I'm glad they finally are back in the game, but let's be honest: that company has been riding the same Athlon 64 high since 2005.
 
Could be interesting. ARM as the upcoming Holyfield? I can't see anyone else in the market that has the tech/IP to make a run at it.
 
InorganicMatter said:
Let's be fair now. Buster Douglas only notched one win. AMD is up to a whopping two wins after Ryzen.

I'm glad they finally are back in the game, but let's be honest: that company has been riding the same Athlon 64 high since 2005.
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What do you mean? Surely their first successful products were the Thunderbird processors that crushed the Pentium 4
 
AMD is really more Conor McGregor to Intel's Mayweather than anything. Lots of good intentions, very little results. Adorable effort, but ultimately outranked and outgunned.

For much like that ill-fated fight, AMD really only exists for Intel's patience, and indulgence. It's just one of those things in life we eventually have to accept - like asians smoking everyone at math, or dying in an avalanche.
 
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DPI said:
AMD is really Conor McGregor to Intel's Mayweather more than anything. Adorable effort, but ultimately outranked and hopelessly outgunned.
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Can't forget, also getting high on their own Notorious supply!!

:)
 
DPI said:
AMD is really more Conor McGregor to Intel's Mayweather than anything. Lots of good intentions, very little results. Adorable effort, but ultimately outranked and hopelessly outgunned.

For much like that ill-fated fight, AMD really only exists for Intel's patience, and indulgence. It's just one of those things in life we eventually have to accept - like asians smoking everyone at math, or dying in an avalanche.
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Wow, shill for Intel much?

Right now, AMD is crowing because unlike their tiny window when the Athlon beat intel for a few years when Intel wanted to focus more on marketing than chip design (the REAL Buster Douglas moment), AMD this time around is making a ton of smart business decisions, put out a processor that has the mighty intel chippy instead of their usual condescending sneer (which is a sure sign intel is flat footed), already has inroads to channel partners with no way for Intel to use anti-competitive practices to keep them out without the internet blowing up on them (something that wasn't possible when they did it to AMD with Athlon), and utilizing a new tech, actually have room to grow and go with it.

Compare that to lazy intel getting by on meager performance gains by tiny iterations on yesteryear's technology that make even some Intel loyalists question if they should bother upgrading their 3770's.


Or to put it more succinctly - having attitudes like yours is exactly what allows companies like AMD to get off the mat and come back a much bigger threat that cannot be contained.
 
maxz01 said:
What do you mean? Surely their first successful products were the Thunderbird processors that crushed the Pentium 4
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The original Thunderbirds actually went up against the PIIIs. It was actually "Palomino" aka Athlon XP, that competed against the P4s, and summarily "crushed" those awful sub-2GHz P4s. Intel didn't really get competitive with the XPs until the Northwood.
 
AMD was always competitive in the CPU space, Intel just had a larger marketing Dept. It really wasn't till the heavy machinery debacle that they really gave it good to the customers. We're not gonna talk about the whole ATI purchase though... It's been almost 20 years and I can still hear whispers of 'ATI drivers suck'

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Im no AMD fanboy but I sure as hell wouldn't say no to a FX-7x 4x4 system
 
Trimlock said:
No, they were not.
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Really K6(-2) vs PII, Athlon (xp 64) vs PIII, PIV Phenom vs Core(2)... it wasn't really till sandy bridge that Intel really started to kick the shit out of AMD. Remember competitive means trading blows not massive domination.

And don't forget who brought us the first real dual core cpu, and 64bit support.
 
exiled350 said:
Really K6(-2) vs PII, Athlon (xp 64) vs PIII, PIV Phenom vs Core(2)... it wasn't really till sandy bridge that Intel really started to kick the shit out of AMD. Remember competitive means trading blows not massive domination.

And don't forget who brought us the first real dual core cpu, and 64bit support.
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Wut....

You need to revisit history, but to play devils advocate ... 4 releases isn’t “always”
 
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