AMD to stop making x86: Bad?

[BarryNL]

I was shocked to hear that AMD will stop making the XP and AMD64 lines
of chips from Q1 next year and only concentrate on making the Opteron
server chips.

Do you think Opterons will become cheap enough to compete with Pentiums
in desktop machines, or will Intel now have the desktop market all to
itself?

Barry.

 

[somebody]

I was shocked to hear that AMD will stop making the XP and AMD64 lines
of chips from Q1 next year and only concentrate on making the Opteron
server chips.

Do you think Opterons will become cheap enough to compete with Pentiums
in desktop machines, or will Intel now have the desktop market all to
itself?

Barry.

First day of April...

ancra

 

[Dave C.]

I was shocked to hear that AMD will stop making the XP and AMD64 lines
of chips from Q1 next year and only concentrate on making the Opteron
server chips.

AMD would be shocked to hear that, also. -Dave

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html

 

[Bob]

AMD would be shocked to hear that, also. -Dave

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html

x86 chips are 48% of AMD sales. Sure, they will stop making them. The
poster is obviously short the stock, and is in a panic because a brokerage
house has set a target price of $25.

 

[BarryNL]

First day of April...

Yeah - should have put more effort in - didn't seem to get too many
bites