In a recent story published by TG Daily readers were informed about an internal memo sent out to Intel employees. According to the article the memo was sent out to downplay the importance of AMD and that “there ‘s bigger fish to fry than AMD.” While that may still be true, that’s not exactly what the memo said. The memo was not sent out to reduce the significance of AMD as a competitor, Intel takes AMD very seriously, but to inform the employees about the many other competitors Intel has. AMD is just one of the many companies Intel is competing with, but still a major force to reckon with, even Intel thinks so.
Size-wise Samsung is the biggest semi-conductor manufacturer on the planet, making it a very important company for Intel, but Samsung is not really into processors or even embedded systems, it’s more into storage like flash or harddrives, which Intel isn’t anymore. Still Samsung is mentioned as the potentially greatest foe out there.
IBM was also mentioned in the memo, but it’s importance is most likely not at large at the moment as IBM is currently trying to get out of the big scale manufacturing business, or at least cut down. As stated by the original article, IBM has no intention of being the biggest manufacturer, but the best.
AMD still is Intel’s greatest foe on the processor/x86 market and that Intel would downplay the importance of AMD is highly unlikely, nor would Intel say that AMD is not a threat at the moment. K10 is coming and we’re quite assured that Intel is keeping an eye on it.
And we should not forget about Intel’s discrete graphics card venture either, AMD is certainly of the utmost importance then.
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