Battlechips
June 5, 2008
As once-distinct markets start to overlap, chipmakers come to blows
FOR YEARS the chip industry had only one story: AMD's David pitted against Intel's Goliath, as the two Silicon Valley firms fought it out in the market for microprocessors that power PCs and servers. But a flurry of announcements this week shows that things are no longer so simple, and chipmakers that once ruled separate markets have started to come into conflict.
Intel has long dominated the market for PC and server chips, but there are two other big classes of processors: those for high-end graphics and for mobile phones. Most graphics chips are made by ATI Technologies (now part of AMD) and Nvidia; most mobile handsets are powered by processors based on technology from ARM Holdings, a British chip-design company. ...
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I was going to take my son with me to do this story but then I thought: “Nah, he’s 10, he has enough fun as it is.” Besides, we’d have just ended up fighting over the controls like at home. And then there was his sister to consider. To ask Sam to help me to test-drive the new Wii Fit, being launched this spring, and leave Rachel out of it would have been to invite total family meltdown.
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