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Information Technology News Intel Core 2 Duo benchmarks force AMD Athlon price cuts
Information Technology News Intel Core 2 Duo benchmarks force AMD Athlon price cuts | Intel Core 2 Duo benchmarks force AMD Athlon price cuts |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 25 July 2006 | |
  
AMD has slashed prices by more than half on its high end Athlon 64 X2 chips in response to superior benchmark performances from the new generation Intel Core 2 Duo chips. The move by AMD signals a determination by the company to defend its market share at all costs. AMD made a big noise when it succeeded in crossing the 20% market share barrier at Intel's expense in the desktop space. The company's CEO Hector Ruiz has also predicted that AMD will achieve 30% market share by 2008. However, Intel, which has been going through a rough patch, appears to have a different vision of the future and recently declared that it will be first to market with a quad-core processor before the end of the year. In response, AMD has said that it will be first to market with a "true" quad-core processor in mid-2007, distinguishing its four single core on one die architecture from Intel's two dual-core on one die solution. {moscomment} |
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