AMD Zeros in on Corporate Laptop Deals

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Bar Mahony, division marketing manager for AMD's mobile-business segment, has told CNET News.com that the company is in close negotiations with many Fortune 500 companies to supply them with AMD Turion powered notebooks - a major step forward for the company into a market long dominated by Intel processor based computers. AMD representatives claim the company was close to many such deals concerning desktop computers back in 2000, but the crash of the PC market brought an end to the proposals. AMD execs now claim that Intel is partly to blame for the failures, citing its recent lawsuit against the world's largest chip maker.

AMD is also set to unveil a new ad campaign touting its Operton line of server processors, which since their release have boosted AMD's x86 server market share to 11.2%. Mohony also points out that dual core Turion processors are fast approaching to compete with Intel's dual core for notebooks, codenamed Yonah. We'll get a closer look at Yonah and Intel's upcoming offerings at the Intel Developer Forum which kicks off today in San Francisco.

News source: CNET News.com

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#1 Firefly x64 on 23 Aug 2005 - 16:41

w00t. Maybe i'll be geting a new AMD lappy in a year or 2. lol

Last edited by 122831 on 23 Aug 2005 - 19:25

#2 kl33per on 23 Aug 2005 - 16:44

Hopefully they can make some money off the laptop deals to make up for their recent poor sales in the flash memory market.

#3 Hurmoth on 23 Aug 2005 - 17:00

Go AMD!

(5 replies) #4 Lasker on 23 Aug 2005 - 17:02

I don't understand why people say that AMD is better than Intel processors, where is the fact? why Intel is #1? I never see a strong and believer point, is very confuse to people which is better and why.

#4.1 Galley on 23 Aug 2005 - 17:37

Athlons "smoke" P4s. Have you never checked a benchmark or a comparison?

#4.2 LTD on 23 Aug 2005 - 18:20

Indeed.

Athlons, right up to the 2700+ or 2800+ have smoked comparable Intel cpus. Around the time AMD rolled out its 3000+ line of Athlons Intel took back some of that glory. Up until AMD's 64-bit desktop cpus hit maintstream, Intel was quite dominant with their HT P4's. Now, AMD is again leader, but this time in the 64-bit game.

Intel will respond, I'm sure.

#4.3 kl33per on 23 Aug 2005 - 18:21

Intel are the number one provider of x86 chips because they have the OEM market (system builders like Dell) cornered. It's to the point where companies won't even sell AMD chips, because Intel will charge them more for their chips (which system integrators with thin margins cannot afford to do).

#4.4 Echelon Left on 23 Aug 2005 - 19:33

Actualy, AMD processors only "smoke" Intel when they're doing certain tasks. Yes, AMD chips do beat Intel chips in the majority (preponderance, even) of benchmarking tests. However a relitively small set of tasks are still acomplished faster with a set of Intel chips.
Fair is fair, so don't go saying that AMD is always better than Intel when the evidence does not support that conclusion.

#4.5 LTD on 23 Aug 2005 - 21:46

I hope you didn't assume that the Athlon beat comparable Intel chips by *miles* in *every* test, LOL!!

This should be obvious to anyone, even without looking at years' worth of benchmarks.

Intel most certainly did not produce garbage during that time, and in fact, when we neared the release of the 2800+, P4s were doing alright against comparable Athlons.

(3 replies) #5 Cmor on 23 Aug 2005 - 17:43

You say "I don't understand why people say that AMD is better than Intel processors, where is the fact? why Intel is #1? I never see a strong and believer point, is very confuse to people which is better and why."

Look for reviews, benchmarks, and even ask games players, they will tell you AMD are better.

#5.1 Lasker on 23 Aug 2005 - 17:59

Even if exist bechmarks that make AMD a winner, is a truth and believer bechmark? I see a lot of bechmark like for example G5 vs Intel p4 created by apple fanboys and u can feel that is not truth, I don't know if these AMD vs Intel bechmarks are really clean and real.

#5.2 bucko on 23 Aug 2005 - 18:05

and don't rely on SVT's statment that amd cpus are to hard to use

#5.3 Echelon Left on 23 Aug 2005 - 19:34

I think that AMD competeing with Intel can only be good for the consumer. Perhaps we'll see more inovation and creativeity from Intel now.
And what about Via, 3rd largest chipmaker in the world? AMD pluging away at Intel can only help Via in the long run.

#6 hardgiant on 24 Aug 2005 - 19:09

AMD makes the best CPU's and Intel has the best marketing.

It's hard to sell a Athlon 64 4000 to someone but they will buy a 3.8Ghz P4.

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