AMD's market share gains accelerate

Being there first with the best also helps....: While I agree completely with your perceptive comment, Sharikou, there's another important factor in the equation: AMD has consistently beat Intel to market with affordable, reliable, bug-free, fully backwards-compatible 64-bit CPUs for the desktop market. This is a major reason why Intel has been forced to rely on shady business practices which look like imitations of Microsoft's shady business practices.

Major direct-sales houses in the United States, such as Tiger Direct, are already offering cutting-edge dual core 64-bit systems to high-end desktop clients and, because they make no profit if the client sends the system back, they are offering those systems, not with Intel CPUs, but with AMD Athlon X2 CPUs.

If AMD can continue to retain the "edge" over Intel in the high-end desktop market, AMD's stated goal of gaining 30% of the CPU market may actually prove to be reachable.; Posted by: vizenos Posted on: 10/27/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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