Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Last month it was Intel's Woodcrest Xeon throwing out the challenge to AMD Opteron server processors, now the spectre of the imminent release of Intel's Conroe desktop processors has been tipped to force AMD to duck for pricing cover with its Athlon range.
According to a number of reports, the Conroe dual-core processors
significantly outperform their Athlon counterparts. This has led to
speculation that AMD will drop the prices on its dual-core Athlon
chips, which have been considered expensive but worth the extra money
for performance sake.
Performance edge has been a significant factor in helping AMD take
market share of its bigger rival in the past two years. AMD recently
pushed past the 20% market share mark, prompting the company's CEO
Hector Ruiz to talk of 30% market share as being a realistic target by
2008.
However, AMD's market share ascent has stalled at least momentarily in
the wake of first Woodcrest and now Conroe. It seems that the processor
game is a case of playing leap frog. Right now, the lead frog is Intel
and the market is waiting for AMD's next leap.
David Bass
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