As soon as you let up, even for a quarter or two, you're in trouble.

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He had a pretty good relationship with Dirk Meyer (AMD's No. 2 exec). It is hard to say who precisely was behind the (Athlon 64) development, but Fred certainly was a big contributor. Most of the technology changes that AMD has made while he was there turned out to be good ones.

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He had a pretty good relationship with Dirk Meyer [AMD's number two executive]. It is hard to say who precisely was behind the [Athlon 64] development, but Fred certainly was a big contributor. Most of the technology changes that AMD has made while he was there turned out to be good ones.

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But here the performance per watt is dramatically better than the industry standard and that to me is an adequate motivation to consider Sun. The cores themselves may not be very elegant, but what's relevant here is whether they'll do the job companies need them to do. From what I've seen Sun plans to deliver that.

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The original theory was Netburst would show increasing performance benefits with increasing frequency. It didn't work quite the way Intel had anticipated.

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Sun, for at least two weeks, had bragging rights about that.

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It is a positive for AMD that a guy like Hester wants to work there.

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If you're asking 'How do I get more done with the same amount of electrical power?' this is one of the few solutions out there. And I think there are plenty of companies in this bind that will see this as manna from heaven.

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PIC does a lot of different things. It does address a variety of needs.

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