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| by Stan Beer | |
| Tuesday, 14 November 2006 | |
  
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The early release of its quad-core range has thrown down the gauntlet to AMD, which has taken significant market share off Intel over the past two years, getting into markets that Intel once held exclusively. AMD has tried to pour scorn on Intel's new quad-core architecture, describing it as nothing more than two dual-core processors sticky-taped together because the chips are comprised of two dual-core processors. However, Intel's new quad-core processor range display significant performance and power consumption advantages over their dual-core brethren and, as Intel CEO Paul Otellini has indicated, consumers don't care what's under the hood. All they care about is the results. AMD which plans to release a quad-core processor on a single die in mid 2007, is planning to release its own "sticky-taped" quad-core solution called the 4x4 which, like the new Intel quad-core range will require two sockets, lending credence to Paul Otellini's sentiments. Then thing that is still not clear, however, is whether Intel's latest efforts in releasing a veritable smorgasbord of new technology has managed to arrest the slide in market share to the benefit of AMD. If the success of the Core 2 Duo chip is anything to go by, the next quarter's results of both companies should be interesting. {moscomment} |
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