AMD CPUs: Underdogs In The Competitive Chip Market

2007-05-02 10:04:19

( Computers )



The manufacturer of xeon processors still controls a huge share of the market for computer CPUs, but there is stiff competition to be had from the manufacturer of AMD CPUs. In 1999, AMD CPUs were the first fully seventh-generation processor in the market, which established its performance lead over the Pentium iii xeon cpus for almost two and a half years, quite a long period in the highly competitive computer industry. These Athlon AMD CPUs were of such quality that they still performed quite creditably in comparison to the successor of the Pentium iii xeon.

You will find that such technical reasons have made AMD CPUs popular among PC users who like to upgrade their computers regularly. For instance, the AMD CPUs known as the K5 series directly competed with the early Pentium and Pentium pro series, while the K6 and K7 series proved to be the better competitor versus the Pentium II and Pentium III. Much more recently, the AMD CPUs series called Athlon is running neck and neck with the Pentium 4. If you belong to the upgrade crowd, keep in mind that these two CPUs cannot be interchanged. You need a motherboard designed specifically for AMD CPUs if you plan to use them.

The other reasons for the popularity of AMD CPUs is their competitive pricing, and, especially for the earlier models, the pin-for-pin compatibility with many main system board sockets that other computer CPUs use. However, AMD lost this compatibility when it made a radical design change for the K7 series. In marketing, AMD CPUs benefit from their underdog image.

AMD CPUs are also the first eighth generation 64-bit extension processors on the market, which are used mainly in the computer server market especially in four-processor servers. But despite this early-to-market edge, the Intel Xeon processors for servers still outsell their rival AMD CPUs.


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