Amd And Pentium Economic Parameter Comparisons
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Intel, then known as Integrated Electronics Corporation, was founded in 1968, by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. The corporation had envisaged a limited goal - to build semiconductor memory products. However times have changed and today, Intel, based in Santa Clara, California, USA, manufactures a myriad of products including Intel Pentium Processors, Chipsets, Motherboards, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors, Desktops, Laptops, Servers/Workstations, and is also into Networking & Communications. With 94,100 employees on its rolls, Intel develops technologies and products but what perhaps is unique about is its 'initiatives to continually advance how people work and live.' Intel, which considers itself 'the world leader in silicon innovation', introduced the world's first microprocessor in the year 1971. It is globally acknowledged that Intel is the world's largest producer of semi conductors. Here we take a look at an amd and pentium comparison.
The claim by AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) that 'it is a Leading Global Provider of Innovative Microprocessor and Graphics solutions' on its website is a question of debate particularly in the absence of acts and figures to support its claim. However ever since AMD based in Sunnyvale, California was founded by Jerry Sanders, Ed Turney, John Carey, Sven Simonsen, Jack Gifford in 1969, its core businesses has been to provide microprocessor and graphics and media solutions for the computer, communications, and consumer electronics industries. AMD went public in the year 1972 and today with Dr. Hector Ruiz as the President and Dirk Meyer the chief operating officer at the helm of affairs, has corporate locations at Austin, Texas; and Markham, Ontario, 16,719 employees spread across 80 locations and manufacturing facilities in the U.S., Europe and Asia. AMD's success seems to be driven by what it calls "customer-centric innovation," its guiding principle.
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Given below is a comparative chart of two key economic parameters of Intel and AMD.
Parameters AMD Intel
Revenue $5.649 billion USD (2006) $35.7 billion USD (2006)
Net income $166 million USD (2006) $5 billion USD (2006) If we look at the above chart it will be clear as to who is the leader, leave alone the fact that Intel claims 85 percent of the microprocessor market compared to just 9 percent for AMD. It may be seen from the above figures that the revenue of Intel is $35.7 billion. AMD's revenue is $ 5.6 billion which is just around 16% of Intel's revenue. The net income of AMD's paltry $166 millions when compared to Intel's $5 billion pales into insignificance. Even the 16,719 employee strength of AMD is no match for the 94,100 employee strength of Intel. Thus if we take any parameter into consideration, Intel seems to score over AMD. Even in terms of the number of employees - 94100 to 16,719 - Intel's leadership is undisputable. However, though a lilliput when compared to the Goliath, the threat by AMD to the supremacy of Intel is snowballing. The article which appeared on www.CNNMoney.com on September 27, 2005, said, 'Advanced Micro Devices has been chipping away at Intel's lead in a key market and beating it to the punch with several new technological advances, but before AMD can take on the behemoth that is Intel, it'll have to do a lot more, industry analysts said. AMD has gotten a lot of attention for its technological advances, and market watchers say it's trouncing Intel in new technology for the corporate market, particularly chips for servers, the machines used to host corporate networks, Web sites and other information-heavy applications.' Being competitors, Intel and AMD were always racing against each other as the history of litigation between the two shows.
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