20-January-06, 08:17 PM
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| | Affiliate Articles: AMD & Intel AMD vs. Intel : The Gloves Come Off  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by Processor Blog |  | | | | | | | | |
It’s amazing how much the landscape of the processor market can change in a rather short period of time — two years ago AMD was faltering as Intel was steam-rolling over it. Even with the successful introduction of numerous chips, you would be hard pressed to find many top-tier OEM’s supporting their processors — let alone finding their chips inside enterprise class workstations. How quickly the times have changed. A few years later, AMD has been eating away at Intel’s high margins business with their Opteron processors, and slowly but surely they have been eroding Intel’s consumer processor lead. The anti-trust allegations filed against Intel have put them in the limelight, and as such they have been toning down aggressive marketing campaigns aimed at stores, manufacturers, and HIV’s. AMD had made tremendous inroads in the processor market in the last year, and it does not seem to be letting up, and Intel seems to be watching the train come straight for them. Full Story at Processor Blog | |  | |  | | AMD's Q4 2005 Earnings Conference Call Notes  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by AMDZone |  | | | | | | | | |
We have posted our notes from AMD’s 4th quarter 2005 earnings conference call. It includes information on Fab 36, quad core, 65nm, and marketshare. Enjoy. Full Story at AMDZone | |  | |  | | All Sempron Models  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by Hardware Secrets |  | | | | | | | | |
Sempron is an AMD CPU targeted to the entry-level market, i.e. to users that don’t need a high processing power and are more worried with price than performance. Sempron main competitor is Celeron D from Intel and you can read our tutorial Sempron vs. Celeron D for a technical comparison between these two CPUs. Full Story at Hardware Secrets | |  | |  | | 5MB L2 cache coming from AMD?  | Quote: |  | | |  | Originally Posted by AMDZone |  | | | | | | | | |
We have learned about AMD licensing a new memory technolog, Z-RAM that could lead to L2 caches of the size of 5MB in two years. Full Story at AMDZone | |  | |  | | |
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