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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (124386)9/21/2000 8:52:24 PM
From: stribe30  Read Replies (1) of 1585803
 
Ted .. with regards to Scovel speculating on AMD gaining market share at Intel's expense in Europe and your skepticism at it.. I saw this story earlier on the Register.. I dont know if you caught it or not.. but its an interesting read.. it obviously has happenned too late to be a factor in this revenue warning of Intel's but could it be a sign or symptom of other places on the European continent?\\Some snippets:

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The dominoes continue to tumble as yet another OEM jumps from the good ship Intel Inside. Tiny, one of the UK's largest PC outfits - with more than 130 stores and turning over $600 million last year - is adopting Athlon and Duron processors across its range.
The system builder, until recently a jewel in the crown of Intel UK, says the move comes as a result of its engineers' evaluation of the latest technology.
Neil Stevens, Tiny's Marketing Director, said, "We started offering AMD systems this morning and half our sales today have been AMD. We don't want to stay 100 per cent Intel - Duron is better value than Celeron and Athlon offers better performance than Pentium III.
"We held off adopting AMD until now because we weren't confident about the chipsets and motherboards. But now VIA has got its act together and the platforms are stable. AMD now has a reputation for quality and performance.)"(ED Note: Is Michael Dell reading this?)

Stevens added that Tiny has no plans for Pentium 4 this year, referring to the forthcoming chip as 'very expensive'.

Rival UK OEM Evesham has seen sales of its systems moving from 75 percent Intel to 75 percent AMD in the space of 18 months. "AMD is doing extraordinarily well. Our best seller is a £959 AMD system," said an Evesham spokesperson. "It's probably down to review success - all our prize winners have been AMD systems.

(ED note; this next part is a classic of British dry humour and sarcasm)

"At the very high end and in business systems, there's still a touching faith in Intel. We weren't affected by Pentium III shortages for the simple reason that we're not selling enough of them for it to have become an issue," they added.
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theregister.co.uk

Perhaps Ted.. there has been a trend of this on the European Mainland.. and not just Britain. .. so.. maybe the skepticism of yours shouldnt be as deep as it seems to be.
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