Overview of the chip market through confrontation Intel - AMD

2005 was a tense year for Intel when it was surpassed by the world's second-largest processing equipment maker in dual-core technology and won the September retail market. However, beating a "big man." "Like Intel is not easy for AMD.

AMD has prolonged the war of the year with the world's leading chip firm when it filed a state court claim that Intel had unfair competition. In the 48-page allegation, AMD announced that Intel had " used the money and rights to subsidize many customer companies around the world and forced its partners not to sign contracts with AMD in order to win in sales. like maintaining unauthorized monopoly on the x86 processor market ".

Intel responded without hesitation that AMD was just "chewing" their mistakes in the past: " AMD has once again chosen a court to interfere with our success. The company is strong enough to resist." again these slander ".

Vice President of Research Martin Reynolds of Gartner dismissed the idea that this was just an AMD " promotional campaign " and predicted the case would take several years to resolve.

The world No. 2 chip firm gained many advantages when in July, the European Union unexpectedly inspected Intel offices in Europe. The company also has trouble relating to monopolies in Japan and South Korea.

The legal dispute is due to limited success of AMD Opteron and Athlon x64 processors. Although these chips helped AMD take an important step toward technology compared to Intel, they did not translate into any percentage of market share this year. Dell, like other computer makers including Sony, Gateway and Toshiba, remains loyal to Intel's processing equipment. On the server market, IBM and Sun Microsystems have similar attitudes.

Even so, AMD won a small but significant win: overtaking Intel in the retail market in September and October in the US. However, some experts predict this is just a " light spot on the radar screen ".

While AMD introduced x64 processing equipment, Intel lost part of the market and credibility this year when the company was forced to change its product launch schedule.

But Intel has returned to the track. The company has focused more on business, desktop, and mobile platforms and is no longer paying attention to increasing chip speeds. In the recent Intel Developer Forum, they announced a new microstructure that promises to drastically reduce power consumption.

In November, Intel began shipping its first desktop chip line with Virtualisation Technology (virtualization) to increase security and support home entertainment networks.

In contrast, AMD is still in the process of introducing a competitive virtualization technology that will only be available in 2006.