'AMD has done well in the server market, where savvy consumers realize the price/performance value of purchasing server blades with AMD processors. Well informed IT managers know AMD processors perform better, use less power, and are less costly than their Intel counterparts. '
That's not true and hasn't been true since the Core2Duo was introduced. There was a time before that but it's long gone. Intel's dual and quad cores are superoir in everyway to AMDs chips AND they use less energy. The latest chips just released may have finally caught up, I don't know but it hasn't been that way for almost 2 years.
AMD lost huge on the server side just as they were winning because Intel produced a killer product and completely caught AMD off guard.
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That's not true and hasn't been true since the Core2Duo was introduced. There was a time before that but it's long gone. Intel's dual and quad cores are superoir in everyway to AMDs chips AND they use less energy. The latest chips just released may have finally caught up, I don't know but it hasn't been that way for almost 2 years.
AMD lost huge on the server side just as they were winning because Intel produced a killer product and completely caught AMD off guard.