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AMD Phenom

I quite like Phenom, but only if you pronounce it fUHnom (like you would the first part of the word phenomenon). If you pronounce it feeenom it sounds ridiculous.
 
drizzt81 said:
If AMD put 1/2 the manpower into getting Barcelona out the door that they put into devising ever changing performance schemes/ CPU numbers of whatever-you-may-call-it, we would have a chance of using those chips before xmas.
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You make it sound like the engineers also work on marketing, and/or that marketing manpower is equivalent to engineering manpower. More manpower != faster. You can only add so much more manpower before you start to get worse returns for every extra unit of work. It's the exact same flawed logic people used to complain about how Microsoft didn't have the entire company work on Vista (yeah, you would have 40,000+ people doing nothing).

I'm pretty sure if they had no marketing department that the new chips will not be going out any faster.
 
quadnad said:
I quite like Phenom, but only if you pronounce it fUHnom (like you would the first part of the word phenomenon). If you pronounce it feeenom it sounds ridiculous.
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Not even close.
Pronunciation: \'fē-'näm, fi-'näm\ E can be either two ees or ea and the and the nom sounds the same as Ven->nom or naum. Unless you're German.

Pronunciation: \fi-'nä-mə-'nän, -nən\
Hear it! Whole word

Abv version #1
Abv version #2

http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/phenom
 
Donnie27 said:
Not even close.
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lol....

who the fuck says phenomenon FEEnomenon?

The second "hear it now"thing on meriamwebster is how i'd say it. I apologize if I didn't write the phonetics correct; i fucking hated linguistics.
 
quadnad said:
lol....

who the fuck says phenomenon FEEnomenon?

The second "hear it now"thing on meriamwebster is how i'd say it. I apologize if I didn't write the phonetics correct; i fucking hated linguistics.
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Chill out man it's no big deal! If this is the name they're going with, we just need to start off on the write foot. Most folks don't pronounce the long and short versions the same. I honestly like the name but it sets AMD up. If the product is just so so, the name will be easy to bash. Simple put downs like "Not so phenomenal phenom" and etc......

Hehehe, Remember all of those folks saying Athalon;) I remember one lady writing Afalon LOL!
 
VikingBlade said:
You make it sound like the engineers also work on marketing, and/or that marketing manpower is equivalent to engineering manpower.
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While it may sound like that, I wanted to show my frustration at AMD's silly little marketing schemes. Of course, Intel isn't any better, but as an end-user I cannot stand the fact that numbering schemes are constantly changed, reinvented etc. Does it make any difference in how the product performs? How much faster is a Opterentium oX-8923 than the Opterentium oX-8971? All this marketing junk makes the product offerings much less comparable. To the end user, the market is less transparent and that is bad for us. And best of all, you and I get to pay for some marketing drone's breaindead idea to revamp the scheme again. So yeah, if you haven't figured it out by now, I don't like marketing.


VikingBlade said:
You can only add so much more manpower before you start to get worse returns for every extra unit of work. It's the exact same flawed logic people used to complain about how Microsoft didn't have the entire company work on Vista (yeah, you would have 40,000+ people doing nothing).

I'm pretty sure if they had no marketing department that the new chips will not be going out any faster.
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I am not going to argue about it, since my comment was meant semi-humorously: laugh for a second then realize that the consumer gets to pay more for a product to fund a department, whose current output works against the consumer's interests.
 
drizzt81 said:
While it may sound like that, I wanted to show my frustration at AMD's silly little marketing schemes. Of course, Intel isn't any better, but as an end-user I cannot stand the fact that numbering schemes are constantly changed, reinvented etc. Does it make any difference in how the product performs? How much faster is a Opterentium oX-8923 than the Opterentium oX-8971? All this marketing junk makes the product offerings much less comparable. To the end user, the market is less transparent and that is bad for us. And best of all, you and I get to pay for some marketing drone's breaindead idea to revamp the scheme again. So yeah, if you haven't figured it out by now, I don't like marketing.


I am not going to argue about it, since my comment was meant semi-humorously: laugh for a second then realize that the consumer gets to pay more for a product to fund a department, whose current output works against the consumer's interests.
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WOW, QFT!
 
I cannot wait to see the new logo for this new name! Hope they come out with something to cause an impact.

What will be the new name for Sempron's ?
 
I think AMD's problem is what it always has been. They have a marketing department that comes up with these dumbfuckass names. But they don't advertise in the right places.

I see intel commercials almost hourly on the discovery channel.

Where are the AMD commercials with the hot pieces of alternative ass dancing around? HMMMM?
 
I like the name a lot better then "sempr0n" and "duron"
 
mwarps said:
Where are the AMD commercials with the hot pieces of alternative ass dancing around? HMMMM?
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Inside the pages of Computer Shopper and Maximum PC. Payed for by the respective companies placing the ads. It really sucks they (amd) rely on third parties to pay for their advertising.

Give us some hot chicks parading around in lingerie to stroke the male geeks ego to convince him he needs to buy this product.
 
I don't mind it, though I like Athlon better... Still sounds better than Core 2 Duo IMO.
 
RamonGTP said:
I don't mind it, though I like Athlon better... Still sounds better than Core 2 Duo IMO.
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I think "core" is a sweet name, but I don't like the "2 duo." That's almost like saying 2 2. Maybe plain Core Duo would be better and just forget the old chips. Something similar to AMD keeping the plain Athlon name through thunderbird, palamino, barton, etc.
 
There are Core Solo, Core Duo and Core 2 Duo which I think are more confusing. Maybe later there will be a Twin Core 2 Duo Dual :D
 
mwarps said:
I think AMD's problem is what it always has been. They have a marketing department that comes up with these dumbfuckass names. But they don't advertise in the right places.

I see intel commercials almost hourly on the discovery channel.

Where are the AMD commercials with the hot pieces of alternative ass dancing around? HMMMM?
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Just an example of what's that department doing actually:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/AboutAMD/0,,51_52_10781_10783^11016,00.html
 
mwarps said:
Where are the AMD commercials with the hot pieces of alternative ass dancing around? HMMMM?
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Tour de France in 2005, when Lance was still riding. That year, during each stage AMD had at least one or two commercials.
 
mwarps said:
I think AMD's problem is what it always has been. They have a marketing department that comes up with these dumbfuckass names. But they don't advertise in the right places.

I see intel commercials almost hourly on the discovery channel.

Where are the AMD commercials with the hot pieces of alternative ass dancing around? HMMMM?
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Real talk above.... AMD marketing Dept. needs to get its head out of it ass,ASAP.The name is stupid.Hopefully the chip will be a lot better then the name its been given,by its
less then proud parents.
 
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