AMD must rapidly move to a 90nm fabrication process and shift quickly from its ClawHammer Athlon 64 to the 'Paris' core if it's to maintain or even grow its share of the x86 processor market, researcher In-Stat/MDR has warned.
It will also need to recruit more tier-one vendors alongside IBM if it's to make Opteron as successful for AMD as the chip needs to be, the market watcher has said in a new report on the x86 chip market.
Essentially, AMD's biggest problem is cost. In-Stat/MDR's line is that to continue to compete effectively with Intel, which it does in the desktop, mobile, server and value markets, AMD has to control its costs.
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