Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: Alex M (adm.delete@this.hotmail.com), January 6, 2012 3:38 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Doug Siebert (foo@bar.bar) on 12/31/11 wrote:
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>I would suggest that the large majority of new PCs are purchased for other
>reasons than that there is a real need for more CPU performance. If
>Intel announced tomorrow that it had reached the limit of Moore's Law, and
>could not make future generations of CPUs any faster than the current
>generation, I doubt it would have all that large of an effect of PC sales.
How do you explain Intel's 80% to 90% market share? My explanation is that Intel sells higher performance CPUs than AMD and most people are willing to pay a price premium to get one.
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>I would suggest that the large majority of new PCs are purchased for other
>reasons than that there is a real need for more CPU performance. If
>Intel announced tomorrow that it had reached the limit of Moore's Law, and
>could not make future generations of CPUs any faster than the current
>generation, I doubt it would have all that large of an effect of PC sales.
How do you explain Intel's 80% to 90% market share? My explanation is that Intel sells higher performance CPUs than AMD and most people are willing to pay a price premium to get one.