AMD tries to draw Intel into chip battle

05.03.2010

"AMD is going to change the economics as they bring out the new systems," Brookwood said. Intel may charge a premium for the Nehalem-EX chips, which could go into new markets traditionally dominated by chips based on the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) architecture, like IBM's Power and Sun's Sparc chips, he said.

"It's going to be an interesting year in the x86 server market. Both companies are executing well." Brookwood said.