They did. AMD had a very strong position against the Pentium IV era offerings from Intel. They took it on the chin for a couple years and then the came out with Core2 and pretty solidly handled AMD for a while.
AMD doesn't look nearly as one dimensional as they did then, power consumption wasn't as interesting and Intel came out with a low power play; this time AMD seems to have offerings in every category that are compelling. It's really hard to bet against Intel with their long history though. I wouldn't be surprised if they come out strong when they get their process stuff sorted.
AMD doesn't look nearly as one dimensional as they did then, power consumption wasn't as interesting and Intel came out with a low power play; this time AMD seems to have offerings in every category that are compelling. It's really hard to bet against Intel with their long history though. I wouldn't be surprised if they come out strong when they get their process stuff sorted.