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Very very cool!

I've constantly found AMD to be a better value in the consumer market than Intel, 10 years ago. I was very concerned AMD was on its way out. Smaller chip manufacturers like Via ( I was so broke as a teenager I had a laptop with a Via CPU, it was the cheapest laptop you could find) stopped making consumer cpus. I might be wrong here, but you can't buy a laptop with a VIA CPU now.

More competition is always great!

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FYI, VIA (or whatever it was renamed to) just got acquired by Intel a few months back. I'm long AMD, but I also agree with the analysis that hold INTC a strong buy right now.

Centaur, who designed VIA's CPUs (and was owned by VIA) was bought, not VIA.

sorry you are right, that’s what I meant

I'm surprised that was allowed, there aren't exactly many x86 manufacturers in the market

Just a heads up, there's a pretty good documentary about the early start period of that company called "Rise of the Centaur" if you ever get bored and want to reminisce on those days of Via/Centaur/alternative CPUs

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