The speed wars between Intel and AMD have become somewhat muted lately, perhaps because of an AMD public relations campaign that pleaded with buyers to consider factors other than clock speed in their buying decision.
But despite AMD's efforts and the overall tech slowdown, chip speeds -- and prices -- are still rising. This trend leads to an inevitable question: Do businesses really make their upgrade decisions on the basis of chip speed?
"They really don't," Giga Information Group analyst Rob Enderle told NewsFactor. "In fact, they would just as soon stop [upgrading to] faster computer chips so they can stabilize their environment and concentrate on something else."
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