Is AMD the New Intel?

摘要

You just gotta love a cinderella story. advanced micro Devices is the hardscrabble kid who came to Silicon Valley with a dollar and a pack of Luckies and ended up in a building with its name on top. AMD's rapid rise from startup to $5 billion semiconductor powerhouse is, as Humphrey Bogart's English teacher once said, the stuff of which dreams are made. AMD went after those dreams with an unabashed moxie that would always be the company's trademark, from its first clone of Intel's 8080 to supercharged chips that enjoy a cult following among hard-core gamers. In the process, AMD has become known as the company that kept Intel honest, the Linux of the semiconductor world. Competition from AMD has reversed the trend of rising prices and stagnant innovation that characterize a controlled market. AMD is responsible for $500 desktops, $1,200 rack servers, and multigigahertz mainstream microprocessors, despite the fact that most of them have Intel's logo on them.