看过金庸《神雕侠侣》的人也许还记得其中一段情节:情花之毒无物可解,天竺僧人最后在情花旁边找到了一种不起眼的小花,它竟是情花的天敌。IT业亦如江湖,竞争对手就象天敌一样往往成双而生。英特尔公司一直在微处理器市场称霸,它的成功可谓一帆风顺。目前无论是桌面、笔记本还是 PC 服务器,英特的产品都占据着主流。AMD 公司成立的时间只比英特尔晚一年,它的成长却用了相当漫长的过程。现在,AMD 处理器虽然已经占据了处理器市场16—17%的份额,但他还是被压制在家用市场,而商用 PC、笔记本、服务器市场一直是 AMD 奋斗的目标。终于,当英特尔放弃×86架构,发布以 NetBurst 架构为基础的奔腾4和IA-64系列芯片时,AMD 认为他等到了出拳全线市场的时机,从而可以和英特尔分庭抗礼。于是一场异常激烈的擂台赛开始了,奔腾4与 Athlon 作为各自的先头部队首先交火,这场对抗从产品、价格、技术到市场及与 PC厂商合作等领域。放眼国际市场,跟随着这两家芯片公司的竞争,相应的主板厂商、计算机 OEM 厂商也开始了新一轮的洗牌。 People who read Jin Yong’s “Condor Heroes” may still remember one of the episodes: The poisonous flower has nothing to do but the Tianzhu monk finally found a humble flower beside the flower, which is actually a natural enemy of love. The IT industry is like a realm of rivers and lakes, and rivals often emerge in pairs like their natural enemies. Intel Corporation has dominated the microprocessor market, its success can be described as smooth. At present, whether the desktop, laptop or PC server, Intel’s products are dominated by the mainstream. AMD was founded only a year later than Intel, but its growth took quite a long process. Now, although AMD processors have occupied 16-17% of the processor market share, but he was suppressed in the home market, and commercial PC, notebook, server market has been AMD’s goal. Finally, when Intel abandoned the x86 architecture and released the NetBurst-based Pentium 4 and IA-64 family of chips, AMD thought he had waited until it was time to market the blockbuster and thus outbid Intel. As a result, an extremely competitive Challenge was started, with the Pentium 4 and Athlon fighting as the first frontiers of their respective forces, from confrontation with products, price, technology and market to PC makers. Looking at the international market, with the competition of these two chip companies, the corresponding motherboard manufacturers, computer OEM manufacturers have begun a new round of reshuffle.