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AMD nibbles at Intel business PC market share
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| 12/12/2001
| Tony Smith
Posted on 12/12/2001 6:04:05 PM PST by peabers
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:04:05 PM PST
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peabers
To: *tech_index
filing
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:05:08 PM PST
by
peabers
To: peabers
My Pentium 4 beats my AMD K-6 all to hell. Not sure how it would stack up against latest AMD. Only using XP for one week now, but seems worlds ahead of WIN98-2nd edition.
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:08:59 PM PST
by
donozark
To: peabers
In the US, AMD took 40 per cent of the "commercial sector" (by which, we assume, it means business PCs), 33 per cent of the government arena and 18 per cent of the education market, up from nine per cent the previous year. Sounds like more than a "nibble" to me.
To: donozark
I built a P4 2.0 Gig system with Win XP. It's the first Intel based system I've ever built. The speed is very good. My DSL even seems to run faster.
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:23:05 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
To: donozark
My Pentium 4 beats my AMD K-6 all to hell. Well I would hope so; different classes of processors.
I just built a new system using a 1.8GHz AMD Athalon XP. Of course it is NOT, repeat NOT, running XP as an OS; its running Linux and it screams!
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:32:23 PM PST
by
AFreeBird
To: AFreeBird
Well, I look at it as "Moore's Law." Speed doubling every 18 months. My AMD is only one year old. One year from now, I suspect my Pentium 4 will be "history." Just as my old Acer 66MHz...RIP.
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:55:40 PM PST
by
donozark
To: AFreeBird
I think the K-6 was 150mhz. That should explain it.
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posted on
12/12/2001 6:59:44 PM PST
by
america76
To: peabers
Is AMD an American company?
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:01:23 PM PST
by
Red Jones
To: america76
Between the cost of RDRAM, the price of the processors and performance, I can't think of single reason to use an Intel P4 over an AMD XP.
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:06:26 PM PST
by
paul544
To: Red Jones
Yes. Based out of California. Has plants in Maylasia and Dressden.
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:07:09 PM PST
by
paul544
To: donozark
Do you know if P-IV has the same tracking serial number system installed that was burned onto P-III?
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:09:43 PM PST
by
beckett
To: donozark
My Pentium 4 beats my AMD K-6 all to hell Thats like saying your AMD K-6 beat the pants off of your neighbors 286.
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:13:57 PM PST
by
ProudGOP
To: donozark
My Pentium 4 beats my AMD K-6 all to hell. Not sure how it would stack up against latest AMD. Only using XP for one week now, but seems worlds ahead of WIN98-2nd edition. Clock for clock, that is, at the same speeds, the latest AMD Athlon XP processors are faster than the P4, its not even close really. Running todays programs that is, who knows, maybe someday in the future, p4 optimized programs MIGHT run better, but they've been saying this for the last 2 generations of pentiums, and it never pans out. Same thing with the PowerPC chip by Motorola, its a real screamer. But thats not Intel compatible so no real market share.
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:19:20 PM PST
by
Paradox
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To: peabers
Intel, what do they make? MP3 players, webcams, PC toys for kids...
I remember when every cent Intel would invest went into chip making facilities, or businesses that were developing apps that would require bigger, faster chips.
If Intel wants to be a consumer products company, they better be prepared for their stock to sport the PE ratio of your average consumer products company.
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:25:27 PM PST
by
Oschisms
To: Bogey78O
That's probably due to XP. My XP partition didn't require the extensive tweaking of the registry that had to be done on my 2000 partition to get DSL cooking at 1MB/sec.
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posted on
12/12/2001 7:28:43 PM PST
by
Oschisms
To: Red Jones
Yes they are an American company ... they've actually been around almost as long as Intel, based in Silicon Valley.
Their major manufacturing is now in Austin Texas, they have a plant in Dresden Germany and do some assembly (a does Intel and most other semiconductor companies) in Asia.
Up through the "386" series of processors, they were a second source to Intel and were very successful, almost as big as Intel themselves. Starting with the "486", Intel decided to do all their own manufaturing and AMD hit some hard times ... they're just now starting a comeback.
To: paul544
The 845 chipset uses SDRAM. The 850 uses RDRAM
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posted on
12/12/2001 8:18:59 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
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