Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, based in Santa Clara, California, USA. In 1991, Intel has achieved a number one ranking of the semiconductor market share, and they held fast to their positions today. Semiconductor technology advancing at a rate of relentless, fast throw-away society and technology tends to generation. In a market where innovation and invention play such vital roles, it is an outstanding achievement for Intel kept one step ahead, keeping the crown among the competitors.
But who is there to compete against the CPU giant? Last year, Intel boasted an impressive profit margin of 22.3%, leaving plenty of slack to reduce prices in the face of competition. With the recent integration of Intel's technology, Apple, who chose to adopt the Pentium CPUs for workstations, it seems Intel is based are set firmly in the uneasy ground semiconductor markets.
AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, a U.S. manufacturer of integrated circuits based in Sunnyvale, California. This is the second largest supplier of x86-compatible, or desktop workstations, mobile and small-scale server processors, Intel follows. AMD is 15 among the world's top twenty-semiconductor sales leaders, generating revenues of $ 3.9 billion in 2005.
AMD worked as a licensed second source manufacturer Intel processors, but in the face of the growing popularity of the PC clone market, in 1986 Intel decided to do without it considers its competitors to start production of a CPU on its own terms. This action led to a prolonged and bitter legal dispute in which he claimed AMD Intel has violated its ugovor.Vrhovni Court of California agreed, and forced Intel to pay over $ 1 billion in compensation.
In 1991, AMD released the Am386 processor, and then with the Am486 in 1993. Both are competitively priced, undercutting Intel equivalent. AMD quickly established a foothold in the semiconductor market, particularly in computers and workstations on the level, selling millions of units of the former in less than a year.
more than a decade, and AMD continues to increase its share to keep the semiconductor market, carried out its competitors with aggressive pricing and partnerships. Today, 24 July 2006, AMD has announced the acquisition of ATI, a major supplier of desktop graphics cards, a transaction valued at approximately U.S. $ 5.4 billion. As our process-centric to play more roles in our lives, it is not difficult to imagine a day when the PC is sitting alongside, or even integrated into any TV. With innovations such as Sky + customers on the idea of opening the media center computer in their living rooms, and then their cars and mobile phones, its clear why AMD sees potential in the development of processors with integrated graphics functions and routines.
major semiconductor market is an exciting experience at both ends, but as consumers we have only benefited from increased competition and demand, and de-monopolisation of the semiconductor market. New products from either side of such competition increases innovation and lowers prices, which may be good news!
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