[luau] Re: PPC vs. X86

[Warren Togami]

Jim at jimroby.com wrote:
> slughead writes "Forbes Magazine is reporting that AMD will no longer 
> compete with Intel to make faster, smaller, and more efficient 
> processors. Just as Mac users would be worse off if Windows didn't 
> exist, Intel users will be much worse now that AMD will no longer 
> compete. You see, there's this thing called demand, and when there are 
> no competing products in a market, a good or service will always 
> increase the price to the economic equilibrium, unless forced not to by 
> the state (forget that right now, communists!!). In English: you're 
> going to get less new technology, and higher prices on existing 
> technology." On the other hand, AMD is definitely not exiting the chip 
> business -- they're just trying to branch out from chips for 
> microcomputers.

That report turned out to be quite a bit inaccurate, but I don't have 
the time to dig up the arguments about it.  AMD is surely working on 
faster processors, they just wont be 32-bit x86 anymore.