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.
Number two x86 processor player AMD hopes to further its desktop market share by bolstering its weakest segment, the business market. Leading the charge is a deal that AMD has forged with Lenovo, which will see the Chinese PC giant release its new ThinkCentre A60 range of business desktops with AMD inside.
The new Lenovo range of business desktops will be powered by AMD Athlon
X2 dual-core processors, which is a coup for AMD which to date has only
enjoyed limited success in the business space compared to its
pehenomenal success in the consumer space, where it is a big customer
of Lenovo.
Despite the fact that Intel has just released its Core 2 duo Xeon range
of processors, which outperform their Athlon counterparts, AMD is
continuing its drive to take marketshare off its much bigger rival in
all segments of the x86 processor market.
In the business space, where AMD has only single digit market share,
the chip maker has managed to get a footin the door of virtually all
the major PC makers except Dell. However, Dell recently signed a server
deal for AMD Opteron chips, the first time it has sourced processors
from a supplier other than Intel.
According to second quarter figures from research groups Gartner and
Mercury research, AMD's market share topped 25% in both the server and
desktop spaces. Those results should give AMD Hector Ruiz heart that it
will be possible for his company to achieve his stated aim of 30%
marketshare by 2008.
However, the true test will be the current quarter with the new range
of Intel dual-core desktop chips hitting the market. To counter the
recognised superior performance and power consumption advantages of the
Intel Core 2 Duo range, AMD has slashed prices heavily. Whether this
will be enough to maintain its new found marketshare, however, remains
to be seen.
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