It seems that they are getting their butts in gear to challenge AMD again.
Intel is getting paranoid again and bringing a rocket-launcher to AMD's knife fight. This year Intel will lap AMD by finally scrapping the old Pentium-chip architecture in favor of a suite of lower-temperature, dual-core microprocessors that consume 35% less power and increase performance by 80%. Intel is also bringing on four $3 billion upgraded chip factories capable of producing chips on silicon wafers that are 2.25 times the size of AMD's wafers and have twice as many transistors per square inch. That leapfrogging should put Intel's gross profit margin, already better than AMD's, still further ahead. "We're more focused and more angry," says Gelsinger. "We're ready to turn the corner and prove naysayers really wrong."
No comments:
Post a Comment