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I didn't use the word "antiquated" anywhere. What I said was that AMD was so far behind Intel in the server market (which is what a NAS is) that they are, for all intents and purposes, dying and there's no point in betting on a dying horse.Really? I had no idea it was consider that antiquated. They are still putting out new video cards and CPU's. i just bought a new laptop 2 weeks ago with an AMD cpu. it would be bad for the consumer for them to go away as intel would then have a monopoly. don't you think?
Here, have some citations: http://media.ycharts.com/charts/c99847d62be57b9177c16b6acf4a6270.png
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-16/amd-sales-may-miss-estimates-as-intel-gains-pc-orders.html
I won't be at all surprised if AMD exits the CPU market and decides to focus purely on GPUs going forward, which is fine if you're a gamer but FreeNAS obviously isn't a gaming platform.