August 24, "Business Week" article pointed out, be careful, Intel!- AMD, a company official claimed that, when in 2009, AMD will win the server chip market share of 40%.
Despite AMD's recent years, when the local forward steadily, rather a kind of sense of brilliance, but there is still an important goal has not yet finalized and that is it in the computer chip market is always in second place in the ranking.Although it has been in the last year, Dell customers from the Intel camp dug his own side, so that rival Intel also began to worry, but AMD is still in a small victory after maintaining a cool head, always bearing in mind its long-term goals: in PC and server chips was 30% overall market share.
According to market research firm IDC expects the latest statistics, market share, AMD now has the best record of its history, was flat, that share 22% of the market.However, a company vice president of AMD, said the company intends to take further positive measures to assist their ultimate goals.
AMD corporate vice president and division president of Madisaiye server chips, AMD Shanghai Research Center at the completion of the opening ceremony, said the company hoped to 2009, when the global server chip market, accounting for 40% of the market.Comparison of its current 26% market share, this target is obviously a leap.AMD's Opteron chip is its enterprise server market for the first chip that was originally in the 1999 meeting of a sub-chip industry was first introduced and then publicly launched in 2003.Opteron has just began, on the subject, including Sun, IBM, and Hewlett-Packard and other big companies, including a warm welcome from many companies, it has been from the beginning distribution thorn in Intel, because of its introduction, AMD'srevenue and profits are rising.In the 2003 fiscal year, AMD's sales of 35 billion dollars, and by fiscal 2005, its annual sales grow to 58 million, the company's net income over the same period also increased from a loss of 274 million U.S. dollars to a profit of 165 million U.S. dollars.
Well, AMD company intends to how to capture more from the Intel server chip market share it?Recently, it has been successfully used only Intel chips, Dell pulled their side, it certainly will bring it to achieve market share targets of great help.Dell last week announced that it will in its dual-processor server using AMD's chips in, and will be used in the four-way server chip, AMD.This is a great business, despite the recent situation in Dell not very good, but it is still an important leader of the world-class computer vendors.
IDC's Rau said: "The company re-established with IBM's business and from Dell's new AMD to increase business is to promote business growth in the key. These sales are likely to push in the third quarter, AMD's market sharecontinue to grow. AMD in the server market, market share may soon break through 30%. "
Thayer said, InState / MDR analyst with 吉姆迈克格 Craig may be just around the market news fuss, so he is well-founded.He said: "I must admit, they are in the server space, or did some very interesting things, for a period of three years from 0% to 26% of such results, not to be faulted for some applause."
So, AMD can achieve its goal?This depends to a large extent, Intel Corporation, in 2005 and watched the first half of 2006, AMD took a lot of market share, it finally launched this year by Xeon 5100 series chips is striking back.Xeon 5100 series chips before the product code for Woodcrest, according to multi-party evaluation, performance chip products has surpassed AMD Opteron processor.
迈克格雷格 said: "We have to do this kind of consideration, Woodcrest will certainly influence the market to a certain extent, but the impact is not sudden, but gradual. When the company started selling 64-bit AMD chips such as Opteron and Athlontime, over the 18 months to 24 months until a visible impact on the market. "
And Intel will not stand still for.It has launched a new version of the Xeon processor, code-named Tulsa, it has been Dell's server product used.
Both companies face the same challenge and four-core processor, quad-core processors are likely to first appear in the server products.Previously, all computer chips are only one core.Starting in 2005, AMD and Intel dual-core technology start initiation to distribute computing tasks and the completion of a cycle in the idea of more work.In the last week, AMD claims that it has completed the next-generation quad-core processor chip design, and Opteron chip in 2007 into the production line.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in the July, Intel will come up in the winter and next spring when the four-core chips.IDC's Rau said the introduction of quad-core chips will become a major event in 2007 one of the industry, but may be the time in 2008, the four-core chips will begin a limited impact on the market.