Well, it looks like Intel is set to be the king for desktop processors again. And it is bad times for Intel’s main PC processor competitor AMD. Just a few years back, I would have thought that Intel may be overthrown as the world’s leading supplier of processors, but Intel came back with a vengence. Actually, Intel had (has) tons of money to spend, so they finally decided to throw their money into making better processors and it came to be Core 2 Duo. After that crap called Pentium IV was easily overtaken by AMD64, I guess Intel realized that they really needed to put some effort into producing decent processors for a change. And with so much money thrown at it, they finally did it. Even the latest AMD processor - Phenom, cannot beat Intel’s offerings. And comparing price value, again, AMD’s offerings cannot beat Intel’s ones.

But for me, I would always support AMD. I mean it is because of companies like AMD that we are having good prices for our processors. If we let Intel come and muscle away the competition, we will again see another Pentium IV show. I won’t want to be paying an arm and leg for something that is not really worth that much. Already, many experts are predicting price increases for Intel processors in the near future. Worse still, AMD most likely will not be able to produce enough processors for the market, which would mean that we will be flooded with Intel processors everywhere. PC manufacturers will be unable to offer AMD alternatives to their customers and this will inevitably lead to Intel gaining even more market share.

I usually don’t support something just for the sake of it. But I think purchasing AMD processors in this case will really help the PC market in general. Competition is good. Monopoly is bad. If we don’t support the underdog, we will all be sniffing the big dog’s butt real soon. And I don’t fancy sniffing anyone’s butt at all. Come on AMD, you got to regain more market share and start destroying Intel.