I am upset that there are only two major competitors in the cpu market and was wondering if there were any more in sight.
2006-12-08 06:00:44 · 8 answers · asked by Fate 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Why exactly are you upset, both companies make very good chips and have fairly decent prices. Anyway as one guy mentioned, there is VIA, but they make poor quality chips.
2006-12-08 10:41:03 · answer #1 · answered by mysticman44 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Major Cpu Manufacturers
2017-01-15 14:10:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The two main sources of comsumer CPU's are Intel and AMD. CPU stands for Central Processing Unit. Hope it helps.
2016-05-23 07:03:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
For general computing usage with x86 chips, only AMD and Intel.
However, there are a lot of embedded chips... ARM is the major one. There are many more ARM chips in your household electronics than either AMD or Intel. IBM, MIPS, Sun, Texas Instruments, Transmeta are some more major players in CPUs
2006-12-08 06:22:16 · answer #4 · answered by shadowkat 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
those 2 manufactures has been in the market for a long time, so they have fairly advanced tech. there is no way other startup companies can compete with them without inventing some new technology. And people need funds, alot of money to hire researchers and spend many years developing the device.
2006-12-08 06:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by 2feEThigh 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is this processor I never heard of but saw it while shoping at walmart. http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/
It is going to be hard to find a motherboard for them because they really are not popular and not well known. Anyone use these procesors before and have a comment on them?
2006-12-08 06:08:24 · answer #6 · answered by Explorer.exe 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, as far as desktop computing goes, there's only Intel and AMD. For server and embedded computing, there's quite a few more.
2006-12-08 06:03:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No unless you are buying processors for servers or Apples
2006-12-08 06:20:36 · answer #8 · answered by A M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋