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AMD races to catch Intel

By Liu Baijia (China Daily)
Updated: 2007-03-29 09:01

Intel is also changing its strategies to curb its losing streak.

On Monday, Intel President andCEOPaul Otellini said in Beijing that his company would begin building a $2.5-billion chipset factory in Dalian. He predicted China would overtake the United States to become the world's largest computer market before 2010.

Although Intel usually plans a new production facility five or 10 years before it begins, it took just one and a half years for the world's largest semiconductor company to choose China, to get closer to the world's top computer manufacturing base and increase its cost competitiveness.

AMD will reportedly launch a new round of price cuts on April 9, about two weeks ahead of Intel, in a bid to maintain a competitive price.

Moorhead declined to comment on the price cuts, but said his firm was no more a follower, but a leader in technology such as 64-bit computing and dual-core processors.

(China Daily 03/29/2007 page14)