AMD Kills Quad FX Platform

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Romani48

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AMD diverts resources from the Quad FX platform development the same year it promises Quad FX is the enthusiast future

AMD excited many technology enthusiasts last year when it introduced the Quad FX platform. AMD representatives touted this platform as the next big thing from AMD.
AMD apparently talked up its Quad FX enthusiast platform so well that Intel decided to roll out a competing product in its unreleased Skulltrail platform. When the Quad FX platform first hit market in January of 2007 it seemed doomed from the start to many with steep price premiums for the mainboards and the processors. These price premiums led to the lethargic adoption of the platform.
According to The Tech Report AMD representative Suzy Pruitt commented on the future of Quad FX. “The short answer is that while there are still engineering resources focused on future platform offerings that build off Quad FX, the current energy and effort has gone into programs and product initiatives like Spider and AMD has discontinued future planning and development of its eight-core enthusiast platform at this time.”
Pruitt continued, “We will continue to support customers that have an existing Quad FX with DSDC and are also working on an upgrade path for those customers. While AMD is not actively promoting AMD Opteron processor as a 2P enthusiast solution, we recognized that there are enthusiasts who are looking for two-socket solutions and think an Opteron platform is well-suited to meet that demand at this time.”
After all the promises ad statements by AMD that Quad FX was the companies enthusiast future, AMD has apparently decided to all but kill the platform off. The few enthusiasts who plunked down the big dollars required to adopt the platform should be feeling a bit uncomfortable right now.

AMD promises to continue support for the platform. However, AMD also promised the platform was the future and the company has all but killed it off the same year. The best Quad FX owners can look forward to is an upgrade to Opteron processors that work with the Quad FX mainboards.
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Não defendendo o QuadFX, que infelizmente com a exclusividade no Athlon FX acabou por ser ignorado, falta dizer que foi um sistema considerado topo de gama durante 11 meses, o que em mercado de CPUs não é assim tão pouco quanto a notícia quer fazer acreditar.
 
O problema desta platoforma foi que a AMD pediu, monetariamente, demasiado dinheiro por ela.. não que vale se.. mas de notar que a performance em comparação com apenas um CPU Intel era inferior..

se tivessem apostado a fazer preços mais competitivos..

porém é uma pena.. porque eram bons sistemas
 
ele devia estar se a referir ao facto de aquando da sua produção não ter estudado bem a coisa.. e o enterranço foi o facto de estarem agora nesta situação..
 
já não era sem tempo a AMD lançar alguma novidade!

estes comparados com os core duo não vale a pena ? comparado com o Q6600 os ganhos vão para que lado ?
alguém tem alguma review este cpu comparado com o Q6600?
 
fabiodobill disse:
já não era sem tempo a AMD lançar alguma novidade!

estes comparados com os core duo não vale a pena ? comparado com o Q6600 os ganhos vão para que lado ?
alguém tem alguma review este cpu comparado com o Q6600?
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Estes perdem contra o Q6600;)Além de que isto não é uma novidade,é o descontinuar desta plataforma;)
 
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