werty316
07-27-2006, 01:51 AM
The other day I wrote the comment "cut throat competition is NOT good for consumers" --
Recently I was hit with a barrage of emails from consumer rights advocates trying to tell me how wrong I was with regard to "competition is not good for customers." First, I never said competition isn’t a good thing, I said "cut-throat" competition (http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3479). There's a huge difference here: cut-throat competition is designed to cut the throat of your competitor and put them out of business (thus the name). Cut-throat competition is flawed by design, and it’s been lurking in our industry for far too long.
It’s time that we let innovation prevail and let companies like NVIDIA and ATI create products for consumers that work properly out of the box. No more paper launches, no more buggy hardware – and hopefully no more trying to get to the king of the mountain position by releasing hardware that’s unattainable for most consumers and doesn’t work for enthusiasts either. This deal with AMD + ATI will all but eliminate the cut-throat competition between NVIDIA and ATI, because AMD understands all too well what cut-throat competition can do to good companies.
AMD needs to survive to keep things balanced in our industry. In the last few years AMD has transformed itself from an underground edgy non-mainstream entity to a mainstream company with growing acceptance. They moved mountains to get where they are and they don’t want to be in the same position they were five years ago. If AMD had not made the move to buy ATI then in a few years we would be looking at a fairly boring landscape. No one wants to start a semi-conductor company anymore; it’s just too easy to get killed.
Whatever your opinion is, based on their lawsuit AMD believes that Intel is (or was?) a monopolist. AMD believes that Intel made it nearly impossible for them to grow their business by using unfair business tactics to stunt their growth. Intel doesn’t agree one bit – they say the lawsuit is complete nonsense. Obviously both companies have strong... Click here for the rest... (http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/07/amd-ati-part-3.html)
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Article Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3517
Recently I was hit with a barrage of emails from consumer rights advocates trying to tell me how wrong I was with regard to "competition is not good for customers." First, I never said competition isn’t a good thing, I said "cut-throat" competition (http://dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3479). There's a huge difference here: cut-throat competition is designed to cut the throat of your competitor and put them out of business (thus the name). Cut-throat competition is flawed by design, and it’s been lurking in our industry for far too long.
It’s time that we let innovation prevail and let companies like NVIDIA and ATI create products for consumers that work properly out of the box. No more paper launches, no more buggy hardware – and hopefully no more trying to get to the king of the mountain position by releasing hardware that’s unattainable for most consumers and doesn’t work for enthusiasts either. This deal with AMD + ATI will all but eliminate the cut-throat competition between NVIDIA and ATI, because AMD understands all too well what cut-throat competition can do to good companies.
AMD needs to survive to keep things balanced in our industry. In the last few years AMD has transformed itself from an underground edgy non-mainstream entity to a mainstream company with growing acceptance. They moved mountains to get where they are and they don’t want to be in the same position they were five years ago. If AMD had not made the move to buy ATI then in a few years we would be looking at a fairly boring landscape. No one wants to start a semi-conductor company anymore; it’s just too easy to get killed.
Whatever your opinion is, based on their lawsuit AMD believes that Intel is (or was?) a monopolist. AMD believes that Intel made it nearly impossible for them to grow their business by using unfair business tactics to stunt their growth. Intel doesn’t agree one bit – they say the lawsuit is complete nonsense. Obviously both companies have strong... Click here for the rest... (http://voodoopc.blogspot.com/2006/07/amd-ati-part-3.html)
http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/2165_changew.jpg
Article Source: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3517