Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

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wbmw, the Headline that Keith provided the link to also had this comment in the article:

"AMD is the elephant in the living room for Intel right now, and they have to deal with it," Dan Scovel, an analyst at Needham & Co. in New York, said before the IDC report. He rates Intel shares "hold" and Advanced Micro "buy" and holds neither stock. "They've had no real competition on the low-end server, and now they do."

Opteron, introduced in April, and Itanium both can process data in 64-bit chunks, rather than the standard 32-bit pieces. Opteron also competes with Intel's 32-bit Xeon and Pentium.