intel v´s amd

The arena of struggle in the digital world is reduced to two names: Intel and AMD. More than 30 years, both companies are vying for market share of computer chips of all kinds. Although nearly a decade, experts in technology, highlighted the innovative capacity of AMD products, sales increases are not foreseen for the company, as Intel continues to lead with just over 80% of the market share, while AMD gets only 16% of the total. In the last decade, Intel seems to have stuck with minimum innovations in their versions of Pentium 4, but the ruse that remains the market leader is its aggressive sales and marketing. For this new year, Intel will launch new discounts on Pentium D 900 (between 10% and 20%), and Pentium 4 (between 10% and 70%) and Core 2 Duo. It also provides a complaint by AMD, accusing it of monopolistic practices, as they say, Intel uses its dominant position in the global market for microprocessors to punish those PC makers who come to use more than 20% of AMD chips in their products. The truth is that war is not yet defined and well worth a bit of history of both companies to know what to expect in terms of microprocessors and computers in this new millennium. The power of Intel Inside Since the 90's, the vast majority of personal computers in his cabinet has a sticker with the slogan "Intel Inside", the famous spot of the company that announced its leadership in the processor market. The truth is that Intel Corporation is a multinational company manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits, such as chipsets for PC motherboards and other electronic devices. Born in 1968, under the leadership of Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce and a group of 12 workers. In 1971 came the first microprocessor from Intel, the Intel 4004, which was created to facilitate the design of the programmable calculator from a Japanese company called Busicom. The engineer Ted Hoff, one of a dozen scientists from Intel, designed a chip with a memory that could do several actions, father of the microprocessor. This first push technology, led to the microprocessor 4004, which consisted of four of these chips and two memory chips. This set of 2,300 transistors, which ran 60,000 operations per second, it went on sale for $ 200. Rather than fast, Intel went on sale the 8008, can process twice the data, flooding the equipment at airports, restaurants, amusement arcades, hospitals, gas stations. By the mid 70's, he was asked Intel to include a keyboard and monitor to the 8008 chip, allowing them to enter the world of personal computers, but officials rejected the proposal, marking your destination producer of microprocessors. By the early '80s came the first hand-held Personal Computer IBM 8088 processor with an 8-bit chip working at 4.77 MHz Of 8088 came in the following years, the 80286 and 80386, which later became known as the "286" and "386." I remember when my father, back in 1987, came home with his new toy: a 286 XT with monochrome monitor running DOS, a luxury to time in Latin America. From these two 32-bit microprocessors, the way Intel innovations of the house was rapid, until the 90 came to the new line of Pentium. As mentioned earlier, Intel leads the market in sales and offers consumers the following products: Intel ® Core ™ 2 Quad Q6600 Intel ® Core ™ 2 Extreme Intel ® Core ™ 2 Quad Intel ® Pentium ® Processor Extreme Edition Intel ® Pentium ® D Intel ® Pentium ® 4 Extreme Edition supporting Hyper-Threading technology Intel ® Celeron ® D Intel ® Core ™ 2 Duo for laptops Celeron ® M 450 processor Intel ® Celeron ® M Intel ® Pentium ® M 780 Intel ® Pentium ® M Intel ® Pentium ® 4 compatible laptops with Hyper-Threading technology In addition, throughout these 30 years has been the leading supplier of processors for Compaq and Dell. In June 2005, Intel signed an agreement with Apple Computer, which provide the processors for Apple computers. It was thus in 2006, new models of Apple's desktop and laptop, have a brain of Intel Core Duo. AMD's Shadow Somehow, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc, better known as AMD, remained in the shadow of Intel microprocessors. The company was born a year after Intel in 1969, making it the world's second largest producer of x86-compatible microprocessors and one of the largest manufacturers of GPU's, chipsets and other semiconductor devices. Currently the company through the restructuring process, initiated in 2006, and launched the first 64-bit processor, winning technology to Intel. AMD is a company with a much lower profile than Intel, but has not spent millions on marketing and advertising, is known for "making a commitment to a genuinely useful innovation for customers, putting the real needs of people to technical development, "according to Jerry Sanders, founder of AMD. AMD has long worked in the manufacturing of its chips somewhat in the shadow of the creation of Intel, since copying the microcode of the 8088 and 8086. Since 1986 the agreement for the production and sharing of information on Intel microprocessors broke, giving way to a series of lawsuits in which Intel AMD required to comply with treatment. Only in 1999, AMD has launched its first microprocessor, the K5, a clear allusion to the Kryptonite, the only possible material Superman beat Intel. But they should spend many years and the purchase of technology from companies such as Geode, ATI and NexGen, to match the support and good prices for Intel processors. In the history of AMD were many innovations and changes so that first K5 processor, you can say it was one of the companies that invested in research and development of the microprocessor industry. Today it offers a range of solutions in all areas of microprocessors, video cards and chipsets. It is also the largest producer of chips for TVs, game consoles and cell phones in the world. Improved K7 architecture, the new Athlon 64 FX processor, the world's first 64-bit Windows PC, offers the best performance in 32-bit applications today and the power of 64 bits for the next generation software, this chip will undoubtedly increase competition with Intel. They who know, AMD has been with several projects in this new millennium, one of them is called Fusion, which is to implement the capabilities of the GPUs on the same silicon chip microprocessors and so give them extra power applications graphics. Another major betting company will be in what they call the 50x15 Initiative, a crusade for half of the population has the ability to connect to the Internet by 2015, this is achieved through competition between several universities countries where they develop the best solutions for each region of the planet based on AMD technology. Among the products offered today ADM are: AMD Athlon ™ 64 FX AMD Athlon ™ 64 X2 dual-core desktop AMD Athlon ™ 64 processor for desktops Mobile Technology AMD Turion ™ 64 Mobile Technology AMD Turion ™ 64 X2 Dual-Core AMD64 Dual-Core After an outspoken leadership of Intel, the projections for 2007, say that finally this year will be AMD's microprocessors Rev G, 65 nm compared with 45 of Intel. The surprises for the world of microprocessors are at the front of the customer, and the struggle for the market, is an unstoppable agonal between the two companies. Remain in the hands of the guru of gaming performance testing of the AMD and Intel processors as well as the strong share market confidence that the company holds for each