For about two years AMD held a clear performance lead, which enabled it to enlist all the major computer manufacturers as customers - first IBM (Charts), then Hewlett-Packard (Charts), Sun (Charts) and finally, last year, the longest holdout, Dell (Charts). Its market share in servers, which was approximately zilch when Opteron debuted, crept steadily up to around 22 percent by the end of 2006, according to Mercury Research.Técnicamente Intel y AMD hoy por hoy caminan a la par, es una lucha sin ventajas donde cualquier descuido puede significar una perdida millonaria.
"Technically, we view AMD and Intel as peers," says Greg Papadopoulos, chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, which will soon sell servers based on chips from both companies. "Intel has engineering depth. AMD has focus."Una anecdota que refleja el crecimiento de AMD y la importancia que le daba Intel ocurrió cuando el vice presidente senior Pat Gelsinger se logeo el año pasado a un onstage. Una pantalla enorme demostró su contraseña: ODIO AMD.

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