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AMD's AM2- What Went Wrong?
Posted by Philipp Esselbach on: 09/27/2006 09:50 PM [ Print | 0 comment(s) ]
XYZ Computing posted a new article on AMD's AM2
When AM2 was first announced it seemed like it was going to be a guaranteed hit. After all, this platform would be moving the tremendously successful socket 939 into the future with its use of DDR2 memory, a greatly increased memory bandwidth, hardware virtualization, and a number of exciting new CPUs. Despite everything AM2 had going for it, this includes a dedicated enthusiast base and a tremendous amount of pro-AMD spirit at the time, the new platform has largely been dismissed by consumers. The question now is, what happened? How did AMD go from record growth and being the darling of enthusiasts to having a new platform which failed to impress?
AMD's AM2- What Went Wrong?
