A lot has been happening the past few months in the chip manufacturing business. While on one hand Intel’s sales have been soaring, the tiny rival AMD has been struggling. Not many years ago, Intel was troubled at the rate which AMD was eating into it’s profits.
Today, Things are a bit different. Intel still maintains it’s monopoly in the microprocessor business. With sales just dwindling by the day, AMD had no choice, but to take drastic steps in order to be in a position to take on Intel. Among these, was shutting down it’s own manufacturing plants and raking in as many investments as possible from wherever possible. Read more…
