Wednesday, November 09, 2005

siliconvalley.com: AMD tops intel!

nov 8th

hard to believe, but AMD has done it.

and you were saying something about how microsoft could never be eclipsed? :-) was that you, darkstorm?

Otellini to Ruiz: No, Hector, we're not selling you the "Inside®" mark.: Hell hasn't yet frozen over, but it may well yet. After years of playing second fiddle to Intel, Advanced Micro Devices finally eclipsed its rival last month as the top supplier of chips for the U.S. retail market for PCs. According to new research from Current Analysis, 49.8 percent of the desktop and notebook computers sold in the U.S. retail market used AMD processors, compared to Intel's 48.5 percent slice of the retail market. That's great news for AMD, which has long been locked in a competitive and legal death-grip with Intel ( see " Intel to play Luca Brasi role in "Godfather" remake"), and bodes well for the company's future. "AMD did the unthinkable by surpassing Intel in October," Matt Sargent, Current Analysis research director, said in a statement. "Continuing to hold this lead in the holiday season would be a colossal win for the company." And a colossal blow to Intel which these days is suffering from a number of headaches at home and abroad (see "Unit 3, on my mark, blow the door, toss the stun grenade and go for the files, " "Intelsucks.com was already registered, so we figured an ad in the Merc was the next best thing, " and "No, that's the layout of the Halloween corn maze. This is the Itanium roadmap .")

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is a shocker. Truely. I was thinking AMD was not even near the 20% mark. Leave aside topping Intel.
Man ! Things can change pretty fast here.

Anonymous said...

I'm running both Yahoo desktop and Google desktop. Both have their advantages. With Yahoo's you can preview a lot of your search results, but not with Google's. However, Google seems more integrated with other software - for example, you can run Google desktop from either Firefox or IE and search directly through Outlook. However, none of the desktop software have all the features that I want. (They're free and I can't complain). I believe Microsoft's desktop search shares some of the same features that Google and Yahoo have. However, MS desktop is much more integrated into the OS (I think you can replace Windows XP's default search with desktop search, which you can also do with a plugin for Google desktop). Anyway, none of the desktop search software offer what I really would like to see - the ability to create virtual folders, just like the smart folders in Apple's desktop search. Google has a paid plugin for creating virtual folders, however. I'm sure one of them will start offering such a feature in the future.

By the way, I use Google's desktop more than Yahoo's.

prasank said...

After google desktop finished indexing, I tried moving around some some files in my computer. Even now, after one month, it still hasnt taken note of that change. Is this a deficiency or is there something I am missing?

prasank said...

Thanks DS for the suggestions. Trying out Yahoo desktop now. So far, no real noticable difference for me.
Something I really like is the Konfabulator. Currently running weather, calender and a cricket widget.