Wednesday, September 12th 2007
AMD Regains Market Share
After a few tough months for AMD following the release of Intel's new Core 2 Duo processors, sales are finally starting to pick up again for the company. During the second quarter of 2007 AMD is estimated to have gained 2.5% in the CPU market, giving it an overall share of 13.4%of total CPU revenues. Meanwhile, Intel has seen its market share fall by 2%, leaving it with a 78.8% share of revenues, still comfortably ahead of AMD. However, AMD has still lost a 3.1% share of the market compared to this point in 2006, with Intel up by 5.4% year-on-year. The recent improvements for AMD are due to increased shipments of notebook, desktop and server processors following a fall in the average CPU selling price.
Source:
DigiTimes
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Future
Report has that the specifications for architectures of R700, R800 and R900 is "closed" (finalized), with the specifications of the R1000 being developed.
Availability
* ATI was reported to have a deadline for the Radeon R700, and was slated for the first quarter (Q1) of 2008 release [8] or the second quarter (Q2) of 2008
QUOTE:
DESKTOP TECHNOLOGIES AND PLATFORMS:
AMD’s upcoming 45 nm desktop processor family codenamed “Ridgeback,” is planned for a mid-2008 introduction. “Ridgeback” will include 6 MB of L3 cache for increased performance, as well as HyperTransport 3.0, Split Plane, and the new AM2+ socket, which is fully forward- and backward-compatible with existing AM2 motherboards.
AMD released additional specifications for its next-generation platform for desktops, code-named “Leo.” Based on the upcoming AMD Phenom processor, RD790 Northbridge and SB700 Southbridge chipsets, and R670 and R680 graphics cards, “Leo” will be introduced in 2008.
We can only wait and see.
Haste makes waste......