Is AMD the Next Intel?

17 May, 2005 at 9:33am ET Article published in Tech

CoolTechZone has posted a small article looking at AMD’s continued growth and innovation in comparison to Intel’s.

AMD took advantage and acquire more market share by providing value and performance in a single package. AMD has always been known to deliver value, which is one of the reasons why its 64-bit microprocessors were adopted so quickly by the enthusiast population. However, with AMD’s recent announcement of its dual-core microprocessors, I fear if AMD is the next Intel in pricing terms of pricing.

Source: CoolTechZone

Comments

17 May 2005 ~ 2:59pm MediaMan The piece definitely belongs in the "opinion" category as a lot of the points and conclusions made by the author have no substantiation in fact. Good idea for an article but, I'm reluctant to say, weak in delivery.
17 May 2005 ~ 4:34pm yagga I get the same feeling, now that AMD is growing they are turning into an Intel, sort of. Prices and other things like multiplier locks and other nice AMD things have slowly caught up with Intel. Prices have increased A LOT, FXs are $800-900+! Some may argue that these are also higher performing chips than a couple years ago, maybe even in comparison just looking at what was available a couple years ago too, but performance increases have risen at a increasingly decreasing rate and so prices should not rise exponentially when performance is increasing slower and slower.
17 May 2005 ~ 5:01pm madmat Personally I just see this as proof that AMD has come to the realization that they can't continue to operate at a loss any longer and have decided to pass the R&D costs along to the consumer as it rightly should be.

Say what you will but for so long AMD was struggling to catch the buyer's eye that they were selling chips at what amounted to closeout prices and operating in the red hoping that sheer volume would make up for the pricing loss but that's changed now. They've pushed the envelope on performance and now that they've taken the speed crown from Intel they've decided that they can afford to be a little more discerning in their pricing strategy.

I say good for them, I personally would like to see AMD making money hand over fist so that they can continue to hammer (no pun intended) out killer chips in the future and hopefully decide on a dang socket.
17 May 2005 ~ 7:27pm Brilt does this mean thrax should hate AMD now?
17 May 2005 ~ 7:36pm RWB Intel still outweighs AMD by far, AMD has to go to third parties to actual develope their chips right? Intel has their own FAB. Dunno how that works, but I also think Intel is still worth several billion more than AMD.

Maybe not for long though, I have noticed the prices have risen quite substantially since the days of the Tbird, but I am glad to say that I still love AMD's so called "value" over Intel.
18 May 2005 ~ 2:35am qparadox AMD has their own fabs, but they also use IBM for fabbing some of their processors.

Intel is worth several times more than AMD.

AMD's market cap is $6.19 B with 15 900 employees.
Intel's market cap is $158.6 B with 87 000 employees.

Those numbers speaker for themselves I think.
18 May 2005 ~ 9:12am GHoosdum Only if you understand market capitalization.