Intel vs AMD: the War of Attrition
Hey guys, Icarus here!
There’s been a lot going on in Intel’s side of the story, and an obviously smaller lot going on in AMD’s side.
So today, I thought I’d give a little recent history lesson about the market war between Intel and AMD.
Ever since Intel released the Conroe against AMD’s Barcelona CPUs, AMD’s been playing catch-up.
AMD’s Barcelona CPUs were simply disasterous; Intel’s new Conroe Core 2 CPUs just trounced the Barcelona CPUs and kept pushing AMD farther and farther back.
On top of that, AMD has never been able to, ever since that failure, to out-perform Intel’s higher-end CPUs.
So while Intel has been going on smooth-sailing “Out-perform AMD’s CPUs” strategy, AMD’s has been forced to take another marketing strategy: price per performance strategy.
The strategy consists of cutting the prices overall in AMD’s line of CPUs and motherboard chipsets; this way, their Spider and Dragon platforms will be much, much cheaper than Intel’s current Core i7 and Core 2 platforms.
This strategy gives AMD a slight edge over Intel; because AMD’s hardware is dirt cheap compared to Intel’s more higher-end hardware, they get more performance for the price.
This strategy has been working so far, but it may be coming to an end.
Why?
Because the Core i5 Lynnfield processors are coming out.
Intel’s Core i5 Lynnfield processors are Intel’s new “mid-budget” CPUs along with some of the Core i7’s newer Lynnfield processors.
With the release of these processors right around the corner, price cuts of many of Intel’s Core 2 processors and chipsets are inevitable.
With this price cut also comes a possible dooms day for AMD; because they no longer have their “performance per price” advantage, they need to find another way to stay in the market and try to catch up to Intel.
Well, that’s all for this post! Hope you guys enjoyed it!
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~| Icarus
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