AMD Hits Milestone in Server Market

DontClickHere writes "According to data from Mercury Research, AMD has finally cracked the 10% mark in x86 instruction set server CPUs. AMD's Chairman had hoped that their server sales would hit 10% at the end of 2004, but they had only reached 5.7%. Some of this gain can be attributed to AMD's introduction of dual core chips in April this year. With Intel only due to ship dual core chips for low end servers later this year, AMD has been handed a golden opportunity to take a larger share in the server market."

Good guy streak?

[bigtallmofo]

Wow - AMD gets 10% market penetration for servers.

With good news like this, I wouldn't be surprised if something like Firefox reaching 75 million downloads were to happen! I hope I see a Slashdot story on that soon.

Re:Obligatory.

[Anonymous Coward]

Tat commentwa s one of teh MOST ddiffcult ive EVER read.

Re:How are dual cores counted?

[ceeam]

Don't give them ideas! I can imagine an Oracle salesman: "Yes, it's only a $50 per CPU <voice type=faint>pin</voice>".

Re:a thought...

[FullCircle]

Look at the power consumption numbers again and it looks more like Intel is a zippy Fiat that sucks fuel like a Mack truck.

It's not the 90's anymore.

Re:Good guy streak?

[Dunbal]

With good news like this, I wouldn't be surprised if something like Firefox reaching 75 million downloads were to happen! I hope I see a Slashdot story on that soon.

      And you just know they are going to tie all of this in with google somehow...

Re:Main Reason

[magarity]

Intel sells the Pentium D now, which is a dual core Pentium 4
 
But Pentium D doesn't have "Xeon" in the name so it obviously isn't for servers. Intel should know better. AMD was wise enough to come up with a new name for their chip to indicate that it was appropriate for use in servers. That's why they're taking Intel market share.