I have 4 pcs in my house, all of them have AMD processors. I never hear many complaints about them, what puts them in the death spiral category?
Me too. I have built probably near 100 AMD computers too. The price to performance is usually excellent. All mine are stable and have run cooler than comparable Intel products.
Guess I will need to stock up on AMD processors before they pull the plug. What a shame, now Intel will have not competition and will be able to charge what they want (within the market).
Currently Intel processors are much faster and use less power. AMD hasn’t kept pace.
I was a long-time AMD fan for personal use, from the 486-100 through later Athlons. This was especially true in the days of the Pentium 4 architecture where Intel's chips truly sucked.
But for the last couple years Intel has been on the Core architecture, more powerful and efficient than any of AMD's offerings. AMD simply hasn't been able to keep up, and they're hurting because of it.