AMD, Intel Goes For The Kill

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published Sep 6, 5:01AM EDT

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AMD (AMD) has all kinds of antitrust suits filled against larger rival Intel (INTC), both in the US and abroad. It appears that the smaller company will have to win in the courts, if it is going to win at all.

AMD is about to release it quad core Barcelona chip, a move that The Wall Street Journal calls the company’s "most important product launch in years."

But INTC does not want to be bested, so it will launch a new version of its Xeon processor which will have two chips that each have the core circuitry of two microprocessors. That would be trumping AMD’s ace.

Both the AMD and Intel product are aimed at the high end server markets where products are sold to enterprises to run large amounts of data.

AMD has not been able to get out from Intel’s shadow. After taking a clear technology lead, AMD picked up significant market share in both PCs and servers. Its stock handily out-performed Intel’s from September two years ago until late last year.

But, Intel got tired of being beaten like a red-headed mule and turned on its R&D rockets. It has take back most of the market share its has lost. It stock has done much better than AMD’s so far this year. INTC is now up about 20% year-to-date and AMD is down about 35%.

It does not look like AMD is going to get back into the game. It may want to lay-off everyone except its lawyers.

Douglas A. McIntyre

About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.