Formoza, a Russian PC maker will say good-bye to Intel's Pentium 4 processors in favor of 64-bit chips from rival AMD. Formoza said 80 percent of its PCs will now feature AMD's Athlon 64 chips, Inquirer reports. Computers with the hyper speed AMD processor will start working "properly" only by fall, when the new version of Microsoft Windows XP 64 Edition, which supports the new technology, is released.
Branding Intel's chips, "ancient" the company said it will now only supply them to corporate customers who insist on having them.
Intel's Russian office declined to comment on Formoza's decision.
"We do have rather cold relations with Intel," said Formoza PR Manager Andrei Kovalev. "But our initiative to move on to AMD has nothing to do with it."
Last Week Advanced Micro Devices Inc. took the lead in transforming the industry-standard, mainstream computing market with the release of the first dual-core x86-based microprocessors for servers. Dual-core chips integrate two-processor engines into a single package reports PC world
Ready for immediate delivery, the Dual-Core AMD Opteron 800 Series processor can be used to build four- to eight-way servers. The new processors can deliver up to a 90 per cent performance improvement for application servers over single-core AMD Opteron processors.
AMD is looking to the dual-core transition as an opportunity to lure customers away from Intel. The new processors operate at lower clock frequencies and lower associated power, while providing increased performance over single-core counterparts.
