Advanced Micro Devices Inc. continues to make headway in the processor arena, last week demonstrating a dual-core version of its Athlon 64 processor for desktops, which it plans to introduce in volume later this year. A week earlier, AMD demonstrated its dual-core Opteron in multiple server and workstation products at LinuxWorld. But while its chips are finding homes in enterprise-class systems from Hewlett-Packard and IBM, it has yet to crack Dell.
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"From our discussions with customers, demand isn't significant enough to force a major shift from us," Felice says. Customers are more interested in maintaining "the stability of delivery and the stability of performance, and we have a great track record with Intel on doing that."
According to Mercury Research, AMD's recent gains still leave it well behind the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer. AMD held a 3% share of the two companies' processor shipments in the second quarter of 2003, compared with Intel's 97%. By the fourth quarter of 2004, AMD had 7%, and Intel's had dropped to 93%.
Intel earlier this month said it had completed initial runs of its dual-core products and was on schedule to introduce dual-core Pentiums in the second quarter and dual-core Xeons in the second half of 2005. The company says it has more than 10 multicore projects under way.
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