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Information Technology News AMD moves to 65nm desktops in race against Intel
Information Technology News AMD moves to 65nm desktops in race against Intel | AMD moves to 65nm desktops in race against Intel |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 06 December 2006 | |
  
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AMD, which now has more than 20% market share of the computing processor market, has vowed to increase that to 30% by the end of 2008. The move to 65nm starting with the Athlon X2 dual-core processor is the beginning of the fight back against Intel's latest aggressive moves. The fast tracking of its Barcelona quad-core processor, which has four cores on a single die and is due to be on the market in the second quarter of 2007, continues the chip race. A problem for AMD is that the much larger Intel spends about five times the funds on its design and manufacturing and has promised to bring 45nm processors to market in 2007, with a firm time line for even smaller chips in succeeding years. AMD is also working on 45nm chips but as yet has not committed to a release date, indicating that it is having difficulty keeping pace with Intel's better resourced development program. As the competition heats up between the two chip makers, the big winners are consumers, who have recently seen a spate of new super fast processors hit the market with relatively low power consumption, while previous generation processors have dropped in price dramatically. {moscomment} |
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