AMD Hits Milestone in Server Market

Posted by CowboyNeal on Thursday July 28, 2005 @11:54PM from the moving-on-up dept.

DontClickHere writes "According to data from Mercury Research, AMD has finally cracked the 10% mark in x86 instruction set server CPUs. AMD's Chairman had hoped that their server sales would hit 10% at the end of 2004, but they had only reached 5.7%. Some of this gain can be attributed to AMD's introduction of dual core chips in April this year. With Intel only due to ship dual core chips for low end servers later this year, AMD has been handed a golden opportunity to take a larger share in the server market."

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Re:Laptops? by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-29 00:24 · Score: 5, Insightful

P4 is not the problem for AMD, the P-M is, and they need to be able to compete on mobile chips with Intel. Not only does AMDs offering need to be good, it needs to be much better than intel's and must be cheaper too or few laptop makers will switch.

AMD is gaining ground on Desktop and Server CPUs because their products are much better AND cheaper.

Intel doesn't need to be the best, they just need to be good enough to keep AMD out.