IBM announces Opteron support but lacks business rationale (ZDNet)

Posted Jul 24, 2002 20:25 UTC (Wed) by bunghole (guest, #2676) [Link]

Even though the author tries not to show it, he seems to be crying because IBM is backing AMD. And this is inline with ZDNET's normal mode of operation in always being pro 'their biggest ad clients' regardless of reality.

Back around 1980 when the Intel processor was adopted by IBM, the main selling point then was that each succeeding version of the chip was always backward compatible. The reasoning being that this would always preserve prior software investments. Over the years this idea has carried through. Then what does the brilliant new guys at Intel do, they go against all prior logic and make the newest flag ship processor 100% non-compatible with all prior chip lines of this type. Kind'a sounds like somebody at Intel needs their head examined to me.

The AMD chip makes much more sense economically and otherwise than what Intel has come up with. This is common sense, which the ZDNET author seems to have lost somewhere. Par for ZDNET commentary.