AMD heeft afgelopen week twee belangrijke nieuwe contracten met Micron Electronics en Tiny PC binnen gesleept. Micron Electronics is de op twee na grootste PC fabrikant op de Amerikaanse markt en Tiny PC is de grootste PC bouwer in de UK. De deal met Micron houdt in dat Micron Duron-powered PC's gaat verkopen via de retail kanalen van Best Buy:
As deals go, it's a minnow: Micron is to flog Duron-powered PCs in Best Buy electronic retail outlets only. But it is the symbolism that counts - Micron is, after all, America's third biggest direct PC vendor behind Dell and Gateway, so it has the potential to buy lots more chips from Chimpzilla. Unlike Dell, Micron is not an Intel-only PC vendor - the company's product mix includes VIA-powered PCs. [break] Tiny PC stopt sinds vorige week Duron processors in hun mid-end systemen en Athlon processors in de high-end desktop doosjes. De Celeron en PIII zijn verhuisd naar de entry-level en mid-end PC's. In het business segment blijft het aanbod voorlopig beperkt tot configuraties met een Intel CPU: [/break] 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.Tiny plans to pitch Celeron at the entry level, with Pentium III and Duron battling it out in the mid range and Athlon in high end systems. 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.
Check dit artikel van The Register voor meer info.
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