We Need A Competitive AMD - Desperately!

So, I want to see competition in the processor market, and I would like to see an AMD that has gone to therapy, and made a clean break with its past, and its feelings of inadequacy. A company that ditches the very people it holds dear and isn't afraid to concentrate on the prize of true success, and real competition with Intel.

A fan base that can only yak about you but doesn't even bother to energize your sales isn't a fan base worth having. Or maybe it is. Maybe being another Apple is pretty good, but the same attitude cost 3dfx dearly. Apple has movie stars, and was pulled back from oblivion by Steve Jobs, a guy who had reach beyond the bounds of the traditional PC market. Jobs is a big part of the PC's history. There isn't anyone at AMD that can pull off that trick.

As for the fanboys: get a grip, people. Coherent arguments, grassroots support, helping your favorite company get into the enterprise, that's what's it all about. Keeping AMD all to yourselves is suffocating the company, and corralling the company into your own world is just not right. If you love something, truly love something, set it free.

Anyhow, what are you doing loving a CPU vendor? That's just not right. It's icky. It's not even a contrarian position. It's just icky.

The Challenge Facing AMD Fans

It is the fourth of July, and that's something special for the non-recalcitrant Canadians and Europeans. Independence Day. The challenge facing the AMD fanboys and sites is to fight the urge to be so contrarian that they actually end up hurting the very thing they purport to love, if love is the right word.

Independence means saying it like it is, and ruffling a few feathers at AMD, not just for the sake of your own selfish needs. It's pushing AMD to think bigger than, "Hey, we're the little engine that just might do it, but if we don't, we're still going to be underdogging our way through the market."

Independence means facing up to the fact that AMD rumor, gossip, and news manipulation is not going to help establish anything but confusion. It's laughable. This is a CPU, not a gamer's card, or a retail package.

AMD can't be consigned only to the retail channel, and the little guy reseller outfit. The future has to be Tier One OEM. Who's gonna change Dell's mind? I don't see any of the AMD fanboys doing that with their current attitude. Maybe they're just happier keeping the company down.

I smell a conspiracy .

Don't miss the follow-up at
Second Hand Smoke - RE: Stop Smothering AMD - Part II .