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What was the biggest mistake of one of these companies ever made? In product wise? NO, this is not an Nvidia vs ATI or Intel vs amd question. I only want to know the mistakes each company may have made in their past. |
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nVidia has some problems with the video chips in the Macbook pros some years ago and even some 8800GTX were defective, Ati had terrible drivers and support, with lack for phys X, i don't now much about Intel problems, the Prescott cpu's were running extremely hot (Pentium 4), but that's hard to call a mistake, the technology was a little different oriented back then. |
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I think that Intel's biggest mistake was releasing an Atom Processor, because all of these companies that make netbooks are trying to get lower powered processors so that they can make more money than they need. The future is in high powered devices, and we need to be able to get them. 1
I don't consider Atom CPU's as a mistake, I mean, it's hard to get power efficient hardware in small devices, you can't at this moment produce something that consumes less then it gives as processing power. Atom cpu's are ok for small computers running XP and Linux. Much is to be desired from this technology tho' ... Yeah I think atom was meant to be like that. The Atom is meant to be "low powered" in terms of it's electrical efficiency. You speak power as though you have a superficial understanding of it. Processing power doesn't come without heat and electricity. The Atom's goal is to reduce electrical power consumption while increasing performance, to end up with a more electrically efficient processor. This process has been going on since PCs were first developed. It didn't just magically start with the Atom architecture. Why do you think processors keep getting faster, despite the power supply units supplying the same amount of power? Less electrical power -> less heat -> less electrical resistance, less cooling required -> more efficient processing power. |
