Most of you probably know by now that Intel has managed to ship 8 million faulty chipsets for Sandy Bridge and had to recall them at great costs. A sale stop was issued and this has helped AMD that is starting to see the effects of Intel’s problematic situation.
Intel has issued a global sales stop of the Sandy Bridge platform, but also restarted sales of Intel 6 series chipset in limited amounts and only in systems where the SATA 3.0 Gbps ports are not put to use.
All motherboards in retail have been put on hold until April when Intel’s partners are counting on getting the new fault-free chispets from Intel. Earlier reports on Intel’s Sandy Bridge problems have speculated that this would give AMD a boost, which now looks very likely. AMD has in an interview with Dow Jones Newswire confirmed that partners and retailers are asking for alternative products to replace Intel’s Sandy Bridge platform.
“We have some customers and retailers who have come to us specifically as a result of Intel’s chip problem. Some retailers have had to take things off their shelves, so they call us to ask what they could get from our OEMs that’s similar. And OEMs are asking us for product as well,” kommenterade Leslie Sobon, vd för produkt och plattforms marknadsföring på AMD.
AMD has had a good start of 2011 with the introduction and successful launch of the processor platform Brazos. Not the least the fact that the mobile market speaks in favor AMD and its Fusion APUs that is gaiing market shares fast.
Intel has estimated that the recall of the Cougar Point chipset will cost them up to 1 billion dollar, but even more interesting is how much AMD can make from this vital mistake.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
