Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> AMD to be big winner, Intel big loser in 2006 chip rankings
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> | A preliminary ranking from market research firm iSuppli shows that
> | Advanced Micro Devices is expected to have made big gains when
> | all the chips have been counted at the end of the year.
> |
> | AMD and Hynix Semiconductor will crack the top 10 this year, and AMD
> | should jump from number 15 last year to number 7 this year on a 91
> | percent uptick in semiconductor revenue. Intel's chip sales
> | slumped 11 percent.
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> http://blogs.business2.com/utilitybelt/2006/12/amd_to_be_big_w.html?source=yahoo_quote
> http://tinyurl.com/y4nvfa
Worth noting that AMD's revenue artificially increased when they bought
ATI last year.
> merry x-mas amd (KDE Developer gets present from AMD)
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> | A few weeks ago I got a call from John Terpstra (you might know him
> | from his work with the Samba project) who is currently working at
> | AMD. During the conversation he asked what I was using for a
> | development desktop and I told him I was just using my laptop
> | these days. So they sent out an AMD Athlon 64 system and
> | it arrived yesterday.
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>
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/12/merry-x-mas-amd.html
So when this blogger/developer gets a free computer from AMD it's all
nice and fuzzy. But if Microsoft sends someone a free computer it's
bribary. Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.
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