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AMD outsells Intel in the datacenter space

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499 points baal80spam | 1 comments | 05 Nov 24 19:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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gautamcgoel ◴[05 Nov 24 20:46 UTC] No.42055008[source]▶
Damn, first Intel missed out on Mobile, then it fumbled AI, and now it's being seriously challenged on its home turf. Pat has his work cut out for him.
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kevin_thibedeau ◴[05 Nov 24 21:29 UTC] No.42055329[source]▶
They didn't miss out. They owned the most desirable mobile platform in StrongARM and cast it aside. They are the footgun masters.
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1. chx ◴[06 Nov 24 04:14 UTC] No.42057167[source]▶
Yeah Otellini disclosed Jobs asked them for a CPU for the iPhone and he turned the request down because Jobs was adamant on a certain price and he just couldn't see it.

Even if it was hard to foresee the success of the iPhone, he surely had the Core Duo in his hands when this happened even if it didn't launch yet so the company just found its footing again and they should've attempted this moonshot: if the volume is low, the losses are low. If the volume is high then economies of scale will make it a win. This is not hindsight 20/20, this is true even if no one could've foreseen just how high the volume would've been.