Rink, it's a pretty funny story, thanks.
But with the Register's penchant for exaggeration, any qualitative measurement means absolutely nothing. For example, if AMD intended to sell 20k Opteron chips and instead sold 30k, then that's a 50% "leaps and bounds" reach over expected demand, isn't it? But for the purposes of my expectations, 20k or 30k chips is still relatively low volume. And this doesn't even attempt to examine X2 volumes, which is really where I went out on a limb to state my expectations.
By the way, I like the way Ruiz attempts to overstate IDC's numbers. I wonder if anyone will hold him to his new goals. LOL.
Instead, AMD held just 6.5 per cent of the market in both last year's fourth quarter and this year's first quarter, according to IDC.
In a recent interview with InfoWorld, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz ignored IDC's most recent numbers and put out a bold prediction for 2005.
"If you believe the IDC numbers, then we ended up the year around 8 per cent share. I would be very disappointed, stunned, and surprised if we don't go out this year with at least a 50 per cent growth over that, which puts us at a minimum of 12 per cent."
Or if you use the real IDC figures, at still less than 10 per cent (9.75) - AMD's original goal for 2004.
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