Advanced Micro Devices have always advertised itself less than Intel Corp., whose big launches are usually followed by serious marketing campaign. Recently AMD became more aggressive: on the 23rd of August, 2005, AMD threw a challenge to Intel in terms of dual core supremacy. AMD announced that it is prepared to put one of AMD Opteron powered servers to a public head-to-head competition against Intel's commercially available chips. This challenge was called the AMD Dual-Core Duel 2005, which meant Intel was supposed to respond to AMD till December 31, 2005.
After three months of waiting for the main rival, AMD decided to go further and set the date for the ?server boxing match?
?On November 29th 2005, AMD took the matter into their own hands by taking their challenge to a new level. Instead of waiting for Intel's response, AMD went ahead to setup the challenge. The date and time was set on 6th December 2005 at 1pm and the venue chosen was ?surprise, surprise ?sunny Singapore . Complete with boxing ring and a host of regional press, you can bet www.hardwarezone.com was right there at center stage to cover this event,?starts the report on HardwareZone .
AMD showcased a HP Proliant DL585 and a Sun Fire V40z servers. Both machines were similarly configured with four AMD Opteron 875 microprocessors and 16GB of memory running on AMD's 8000-series chipset. The place for Intel's champion remained unoccupied during the whole event.
Even though AMD claims victory in its own-organized duel, it still has to win market share from Intel Corp. According to Mercury Research , Santa Clara, California-based Intel Corp., commands 80.8% of the global x86 CPU market, while AMD follows up with 17.8% of the market.
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