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AMD, Transmeta Edge Up In Market Share
prostoalex writes "The new Mercury Research report on the microprocessor market is out, and it looks like the little guys are gaining ground. AMD now owns 15.7% of the market, instead of 15.6% a year ago, while Transmeta and other manufacturers went from 1.7% to 1.8% in a single year. Intel owns 82.5% of the market instead of 82.8% a year ago. News.com.com also notices: 'The competition between the two companies will shift into high gear over the remainder of the year. On Sept. 23, AMD will release the Athlon64, a new desktop chip that can run 32-bit and 64-bit software.'"
I guess Intel would increase market share if we get stats on number of transistors sold.
Omnis amans amens
> Was it not enough to extend the 8085 first to 8086, than to 80286, than to 80386 and now to x86-64? When will this end?
With the x86-640KB, if a famous prediction attributed to Bill Gates is true.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
If you rearrange the letters in "amd transmeta athlon", you get "a short talent madman"... And here I though Bill Gates had nothing to do with this.
"Floating Point Error found in method to calculate market share." It could happen!
-]Phreak Out[-
Going from 1.7% to 1.8% is a 6% increase!
... what's a decade between friends anyway when you celebrate 1% of gained marketshare in 2013.
or are they still insisting that desktop users arent ready for 64 bit chips?
Bill Gates (1985) - "No one needs more than 640kb of memory"
Intel (2003) - "No one needs more than 32-bit processors"
As soon as there is no longer any money to be made.
Stick Men
As far as I understand, the kind of applications most likely to benefit from going 64-bit are mostly database apps
... ** drool **
64bit MS Access
Whoa, Nelly. You're going beyond the eigth grade math that most Slashdot readers completed last spring. Careful!