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AMD Beats Intel in CPU Sales
glockenspieler writes "As reported by Ars Technica, for the week ending April 24th, AMD accounted for 52% of desktop CPU sales. Granted its just one week but perhaps this indicates that AMD is really building momentum in the desktop market. So, when will Dell begin carrying AMD?"
Netcraft confirms it: Intel is dying.
Yet another crippling bombshell hit already beleaguered Intel microprocessor community today when Ars Technica (and Netcraft) confirmed that AMD sold more processors than Intel for the week ending April 24th. Coming on the heels of a recent survey which indicated people like saving money when buying a computer this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along: Intel is collapsing in complete disarray.
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Intel's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Intel faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Intel because Intel is dying.Things are looking very bad for Intel. Their offices are dark, the tomb-like sepulchral atmosphere is all that remains. Intel continues to lose market share, red ink flows like a river of blood.
The Intel development team is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house. All major surveys show that Intel has steadily declined in market share. Intel is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Intel is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers and hangers-on. Intel continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Intel is dead.
Fact: Intel is dying
Trolling is a art,
Upstarts can overtake the entrenched Powers That Be!
It's so beautiful...[wipes away tear]
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we are waiting
So this is the cause of global warming!
Well, clearly an Athlon 64 must be 16 times as powerful as a Pentium 4!
You have to be a salesman to know that "better & cheaper" is a strong sales motivator?
What would be the new term? "WMD"?
...used an Intel processor to perform the calculations, rendering the AMD percentage well within a huge margin of error.
I can't afford to be buying new AMD processors each week just to try and sway the numbers.
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If AMD is beating Intel, does that mean we're supposed to start hating AMD now?
That's why I never purchase my microprocessors from early American colonists, those butchers.
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Hopefully now the Intel marketeers have removed the handcuffs from the engineers to let them design a new processor without worrying about clockspeed (like they did with Pentium-M) It must have sucked to be a design engineer in those meetings.
"We have this desktop processor design that is twice as fast as anything on the market, runs at 2GHz consuming 40W of power."
"Sounds great, just make it run at 4GHz and we have a winner"
"Umm it doesn't work that way"
"Great, well have the new design on our desk by the end of the week"