castanyes blaves
Random ramblings about some random stuff, and things; but more stuff than things -- all in a mesmerizing and kaleidoscopic soapbox-like flow of words.1/20/2006
Apparently, AMD (American Micro Devices) has reached the 52% marketshare of CPUs in the desktop computers sold in the USA, in the latest record.
From what I see, AMD has been always trying to reach the level of performance of Intel chips but selling their products way cheaper, or a tad cheaper, than its main competitor.
Being computers something we will be seing more and more often and in more and more places in our lives, price is certainly important. For pockets that are in the verge of entering the digital world, even a small difference in price makes a difference.
AMD is deeply involved in the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project. This is, in my opinion, a great "company asset", or whatever it is called in the MBA jargon. Being part of a project that will put a lot of computers into the hands of a lot of childs, anxious to get to know a lot, is really cool.
That said, their Opteron chips, which work great under Linux, are very nice piece of number-crunching... :-)
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