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AMD Desktops Outsell Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the powerful-all-caps-mode dept.

prostoalex writes "For the week ending August 21st AMD managed to capture 54% market share among new desktops sold. Intel's share during the week was 45%. While Intel leads the U.S. CPU market with 82.7% market share, folks from AMD are proud to announce this is the second week this year - they also outsold Intel on the desktop market one time in April 2004."

6 of 468 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Good to hear! by shfted! · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not as if RedHat is the only OS you can install. Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, and SuSe are also quite popular. Then there are NetBSD, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD. What is this monopoly you are talking about?

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  2. Re:Including businesses? by Gherald · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Intels still run faster, even if they don't crunch the big numbers all in one cycle.

    s/run\ faster/have\ higher\ clockspeeds

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  3. Re:Including businesses? by HFXPro · · Score: 4, Funny

    s/run\ faster/have\ higher\ clockspeeds/ you forgot the last / My perl chokes on your subsitution regular expression.

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  4. Re:and with pointless time-wasters like EPIC by MostlyHarmless · · Score: 4, Funny

    What exactly does EPIC provide, apart from a lot of work for compiler writers and a (theoretical) maximum 4-fold speed increase with current designs?

    "All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"

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  5. global warming by tasinet · · Score: 5, Funny
    On another page, global warming is still rising at an alarming pace.

    Coincidence? Naah...
  6. They are the big guys now..... by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Uh oh.....time to start hating AMD.

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