AMD workstation market share sink to new lows

Why would you smile? A strong AMD keeps Intel prices lower.[/shrug]

Good question.

One another note, to the OP, the quarter isnt over yet, so I wouldnt place bets on that number, either way.

Good points. Would have been far more effective with out the: "More retarded financial analysis from the peanut gallery..."

I can't speak for someone else, but I'll smile because of the piece of crap Athlon 600 they sold me years ago. I hope they survive with just enough market share to keep Intel honest. That's all AMD deserves.

Hey, you asked !

Are you sure you're not Sharikou in disguise?

The way Sharikou talks about AMD "finishing Intel off once and for all" as if Intel is on it's last gasp of breath is absolutely hilarious!

This is not as bad as it seems as AMD realized that the low end volume was what they needed this year.

Of course I think it's partially due to the partiality of vendors for nVidia GPUs. If you look at who reported this Jon Peddie does mostly graphics analysis. He reported earlier this year that nVidia and Intel were getting more of the wksta business because of the availability of quad core.

Wkstas aren't as close to servers as they are replaced on a shorter schedule due to improved HDDs, GPUs and NICs (scale up). Servers are handled as scale out.

Now I'm not Jon Peddie but this may also be because there has been no word from ATi about the latest FireGL for HD2000. Had there been better progress on that then AMD would have split the GPU share moreso with nVidia.

It was reported that the B2 stepping is due in a few days that will hopefully fix the clock speed problem(Fuad and I think Anand mentioned it). If so then the upgraders can pop in Barcelonas sooner.

The biggest issue I see for them is that there is no HT3 chipset for MP servers or wkstas. The deals are piling up on the low end though which can more than account for server share if not revenue share.

At least more places are starting to admit that AMD hasn't misfired, they don't have 10 Fabs and a large war chest. With the resources they have they're being really smart. They have enough of a presence in server and wksta (how many movies are made with Opteron/Quadro?) that they can go the low end volume route until Kuma/Agena.

Barcelona needs to go out by next month though. 2P and 4P. Hopefully they are dong some of the runs in the joint IBM fab to keep Brisbane coming out of Fab 36.

But then if Chartered can ramp quickly, that gives more room for Barcelona derivatives. This is a complex business and I always say NetBurst showed that you don't have to be the fastest to sell well.