I just read this on AMD’s website, and then I noticed a link to something by AMD - The top 10 reasons Intel did not participate in the Dual-Core Duel.
- Tried to follow their roadmap to get to the duel.
- Decided to take the “front-side-bus” to the duel; got stuck in a bottleneck.
- The “Intel Inside” stickers they used to package the cores together keep melting.
- TO busy rearranging the chairs on the Itanic.
- “Hey we don’t expect anyone to actually buy these things!”
- Didn’t want to comete when the realised that the dual would involve actual “rules” of fair competition.
- They couldn’t get a permit from the fire department to emit that much heat.
- No systems available yet – protective clothing used by manufacturers only safe for up to 149 watts.
- Dell told them they weren’t allowed to participate.
And the number one reason Intel didn’t accept the dual-core dual:
- Moore’s Law has been replaced by “Paul’s Paradox”: the number of cancelled products per year at Intel will double every year after the introduction of the AMD Opteron Processor.
(Link to the pdf file of this is here.)
I laughed when I read that, I round it rather amusing.