{"id":5178,"date":"2010-01-14T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T11:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ex-amd-exec-would-not-buy-amd-for-personal-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/5178-ex-amd-exec-would-not-buy-amd-for-personal-system","title":{"rendered":"Ex AMD exec would not buy AMD for personal system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel is playing dirty in the current antitrust suit that is taking place. The chip maker has included as part of its case that one of AMD&rsquo;s top executives was quoted as saying he would never use an AMD CPU in his own PC.<\/p>\n<p>The excerpt is from 2004, and quotes then AMD Executive Vice President Henri Richard as saying &#8220;If you look at it with an objective set of eyes, you would never buy AMD. I certainly would never buy AMD for a personal system, if I wasn&#8217;t working here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed a lot since 2004, and both AMD and Intel have released multiple new CPU architectures since then, but the quote is still a rather harsh indictment on the quality of AMD&rsquo;s CPUs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henri Richard though AMD CPUs were pants in 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}