However, in the short term, slashing prices isn't necessarily beneficial for either company, stated Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat. Both companies are coming out with competitive products and don't really need to drop the prices. Once a company begins doing so, customers start to expect it, he told TechNewsWorld...
Intel has sustained an innovative advantage in the mobile market, though AMD has flexed its muscles in the desktop and server chip areas, according to Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat. Now, Intel is making a push there, he told TechNewsWorld. "Desktop servers and the PC market is the new battleground. It's going to be a very competitive landscape for at least the next year."
"AMD's new family of energy efficient desktop processors nicely complements PC manufacturers' need to design and deliver smaller, sleeker form factors into the market," said In-Stat Principal Analyst Jim McGregor Efficiency Ebb...
Its Athlon 64-bit PC chips followed that August, but Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat, told TechNewsWorld that Intel is not far behind in the PC market "Most of the ground gained by AMD has been in servers, where Intel has both a 64-bit Xeon and Itanium," he said....
Jim McGregor, principal analyst at In-Stat/MDR, told TechNewsWorld that the slightly higher speed chip will have no impact on the market "This is simply a process called a 'binning,'" he explained. "Products are binned according to speeds they pass testing at. Typically as a p...