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Originally posted by Underlord
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Originally posted by Underlord
Intel purposely designed their CPUs to provide less processing power per cycle, making them hotter and less efficient than competitive Athlons, in the aim of making the public believe that they were better.
Not strictly true. They wouldn't purposely design the chips to be less efficient. What it actually is is Intel focussed on clock speeds, AMD focussed on work per cycle. Ultimately, Intel ran out of steam, whereas AMD are still getting faster speeds.
I don't want to start an Intel vs AMD debate but focusing on clock speed, for marketing reasons, IS purposely designing the chips to be less efficient. These things don't just happen by accident.
Again, not quite. Intel didn't design their chips to be less efficient; all Intel did was
not increase efficiency. I know this is arguing over semantics now, but I still stand by my claim that no company would purposely reduce efficiency: it'd be like if Microsoft started releasing viruses.
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