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What the media is saying
Intel's claim of technological parity with AMD is an easily penetrated smoke screen.
- -InfoWorld (April 21, 2005)
AMD…was first to champion a memory technology called DDR, for double-data rate, that is now widely used. Its first Opteron systems, delivered two years ago, were the first x86 chips to crunch 64 bits of data at a time, which allows chips to tap into more memory than earlier 32-bit chips. Intel has followed both moves.
- -The Wall Street Journal (April 21, 2005)
AMD says its processors have been designed from the beginning with dual-core capabilities in-mind, which should result in massive performance gains. It argues that Intel rushed out dual-core chips that are jerry-rigged single core processors.
- -BusinessWeek (April 19, 2005)
Almost overnight, AMD has become a major supplier of chips in the high-priced and high-margin world of servers, the big machines that power the Internet and corporate networks. In a grudging acknowledgment of AMD's prowess, Intel this year changed its technology strategy to copy the design of AMD's hot new server chip …
- -Fortune (October 18, 2004)
[AMD's] striking success raises the possibility of a profound shift in the technology industry…And since microprocessors are the brains of all things digital, the benefits could spread to everything from computers to flat-panel televisions …
- -BusinessWeek (Sept. 20, 2004)
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