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1. Sales shrink in 2008 and it's going to get worse in 2009.

The first half of the year was characterized by anxiety over troubling economic indicators. The second half
saw everyone's deepest fears realized as the reality of an economic crisis of global proportions set in. The
semiconductor industry was not spared, as bellwether Intel downgraded its fourth quarter sales guidance
and several companies announced layoffs and other cost-cutting measures.

The news got bleaker as 2008 wound down -- current analysis pegs the year's chip revenues shrinking
against 2007 sales, and some market watchers predict they'll sink by another 10 percent or more in 2009.

The silver lining: Developers of new categories like netbooks are set to deliver improved performance at
recession-friendly prices and cost-saving technologies like virtualization and energy-efficient silicon have
never had more appeal.

2. AMD escapes possible doom with creative restructuring.

If, at the start of 2008, we had to name a chip maker that was least likely to survive the year, quite a few
people would have picked Advanced Micro Devices. The company flailed its way through 2007, adding to
an epic string of quarterly losses and botching the release of its first quad-core processors due to a silicon
glitch.

Perhaps that's why AMD accelerated its restructuring plans with an urgency the company hadn't seemed to
possess in years. First up was the change at the top, as CEO Hector Ruiz stepped down to make way for
Dirk Meyer. Then, the really big move -- the splitting of AMD into two, with the chip maker spinning off its
manufacturing assets to form the Foundry Company with Abu Dhabi investors.

The company isn't entirely out of the woods. AMD's share price is still scraping bottom and as a result its
original 44.4 percent stake in the Foundry Company has been reduced to 34.2 percent. Still, a smarter,
lighter AMD may just be around for quite some time -- if the shrinking economy doesn't kill the company's
comeback before it hits full stride.

3. Green IT comes of age.

Chip makers have been pushing energy efficiency for years. But it took it took a summer of soaring fuel
prices and an autumn of economic collapse to really send the message home to consumers and businesses
that Green IT isn't tree-hugging blather, it's a big-time cost-saver.

Want proof? Just look at IBM's national ads for its energy-efficient BladeCenters -- which air during NFL
broadcasts, no less -- depicting cartoon rainforests growing out of server racks.

If the conspicuous consumers of America's most bloated sporting spectacles are open to Green IT's bottom-
line value, we're going to say that environmentally friendly technology has finally arrived. Vegans? Not so
much.

4. It's apples-to-apples all over again with Intel's Core i7s and AMD's 45nm
Opterons and Phenom IIs.

In a normal year -- one not involving the global economy collapsing like a house of cards, that is -- this
would easily be the top story on all the year-end lists. As it stands, the November introduction of major new
product lines by Intel and AMD was somewhat overshadowed by affairs on Wall Street.
Which is a shame, because Intel's new Nehalem microarchitecture on its Core i7 desktop chips and AMD's
transition to the 45nm fabrication process with its new Shanghai line of server chips and upcoming Phenom
II desktop chips bring the two top x86 microprocessor makers into more direct competition with like products
than we've seen in years.

With AMD pricing its new products very aggressively, the benchmarking competition between its 45nm
chips and Intel's is due to get very interesting indeed.

5. Wintel conspiracy buffs have a field day.

How is it that a software story that was hatched in 2005, played out in 2006 and got legs in 2007 is a top 10
chip story in 2008? It helps when a federal judge releases a slew of internal Microsoft e-mails that implicate
Intel in the laughably misleading marketing campaign for Windows Vista ahead of the operating system's
release in early 2007. That's what happened in the past year, as a class-action lawsuit against the software
giant over its Vista Capable campaign really got rolling.

Did Microsoft and Intel conspire to fool customers into thinking old Intel systems were quot;capablequot; of running
Microsoft's graphics-rich new OS? Thanks to Judge Marsha Pechman, we've got plenty of evidence to pore
through.

6. Intel puts major muscle behind the new 'netbook' category.

Intel began the year pushing the promise of MIDs and UMPCs at CES, but by April the chip giant had
shifted its primary position towards slightly larger form factors -- the quot;netbookquot; and quot;nettop.quot; To that end,
Intel released its ultra-low voltage Atom processor (pictured) a competitor straight out of the gate for both
RISC-based chips and low-power x86 devices from companies like VIA Technologies. On the heels of Asus'
success with its Eee PC netbook, Intel started going after the new category with Atom.

The upshot -- now the chip giant, along with OEMs like Asus, Acer, HP and Dell, has a brand new category
that's growing wildly in defiance of overall market trends.

7. Visual computing goes well beyond gaming.

We've come a long way since the first graphic user interfaces were introduced on PCs. Rich visual
computing is a bona fide mainstream phenomenon and trickling down to smaller, cheaper devices every
day.

But if 2007 was the year of novel twists on the GUI as per Apple's iPhone and Nintendo's Wii, then 2008
was the year GPU computing stopped being strictly quot;visual.quot; That's because Nvidia, and to a lesser extent
AMD, have worked hard to develop ecosystems around the development of general purpose-GPU (GP-
GPU) computing.

The basic idea is that graphics processors, pigeonholed for years as eye candy gimmickry, have been
underutilized as highly efficient engines for certain types of non-visual parallel computing operations that are
commonly performed less efficiently by central processors. So how's all this playing in the wild? Nvidia in
May reported it had shipped more than 70 million GPUs featuring its proprietary CUDA architecture for GP-
GPU computing, already had more than 60,000 CUDA SDK downloads and was seeing 350.000 CUDA-
enabled driver downloads every week.

8. AMD grabs hold of graphics' brass ring.
AMD's late 2006 acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has had its hiccups -- think billions in
financial impairment charges -- but the merger finally started to pay off big-time in the early summer. That's
when AMD's Graphics Product Group released its Radeon R700 graphics processers, which jacked up the
preceding R600 generation's from 320 to a whopping 800 stream processing units. That extension of the
unified shader architecture, combined with AMD's industry leading 55nm process technology, produced the
industry's first consumer GPUs to achieve one teraFLOP scale.

In August, AMD released its ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics card (pictured) with two Radeon R770 GPUs
totalling 2.4 teraFLOPs -- and for the first time in years, wrestled away the high-end graphics performance
crown from market leader Nvidia.

9. Nvidia closes out the year with a bang.

Nvidia was tipped by several prognosticators to surpass AMD as Intel's chief rival in 2008. That didn't come
to pass, due in part to AMD's nimble corporate restructuring and its Graphics Product Group's stunning
triumph with its R700 family of products.

But Nvidia wasn't simply caught flat-footed in the first half of the year -- the discrete graphics market leader
also endured a packaging glitch on its mobile GPUs which was the main reason Nvidia suffered its first
quarterly loss in five years.

The good news for CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and the green gang is that Nvidia wrapped up a disappointing
year with a strong showing. The company smartly went sideways in the face of AMD's high-end leadership,
winning a place for its smaller, more nimble motherboard GPUs in October's new line of MacBooks from
Apple. And as the year closed out, Nvidia packaged those elegant little visual engines with Intel's Atom
processor on a platform called Ion (pictured) that could set the netbook-nettop market on its ear in 2009.

10. Intel cements its market leadership in style.

What can you say about the microprocessor market leader's performance in 2008? It was dj' vu all over
again as CEO Paul Otellini and the relentless team from Santa Clara replicated a strong showing in 2007 by
executing their vaunted tick-tock strategy of bringing co-founder and visionary Gordon Moore's incredibly
shrinking chips to market yet again. Thus Intel had the only 45nm chips on the market until AMD's mid-
November release of its Shanghai products, and thanks to the TLB errata on AMD's Barcelona and Phenom
chips, Intel had the quad-core market all to itself for more than a quarter longer than it had any right to
expect.

During this period, the chip giant also released its ultra-low voltage Atom processors, stepped up its solid
state presence and pledged to maneuver its x86 architecture into computing products ranging from smart
phones to embedded systems to graphics processors. The bottom line -- Intel's performance has become
so consistent we're in danger of taking it for granted.
10 sự kiện đáng chú ý nhất ngành công nghiệp chip trong năm 2008.

1. Doanh số sụt giảm và sẽ còn tiếp tục thê thảm hơn trong năm tới

Nửa đầu năm, những tín hiệu về cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế khiến thị trường trở nên bất an. Nửa cuối năm,
các doanh nghiệp thực sự lo lắng khi cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế đã cận kề. Ngành công nghiệp chip cũng
không ngoại lệ, với việc Intel giảm doanh số dự báo cho quý 4, một vài công ty khác tiến hành sa thải nhân
viên và các biện pháp cắt giảm chi tiêu.

Tình hình trong năm 2009 cũng không sáng sủa hơn với khả năng sẽ sụt giảm thêm khoảng 10% theo
nhận định của giới chuyên gia.

Tác động: Các nhà phát triển của các dòng sản phẩm mới như Netbook sẽ phải cải thiện khả năng hoạt
động của thiết bị hơn nữa với mức giá chấp nhận được. Những công nghệ tiết kiệm chi phí như ảo hóa
hay bán dẫn tiết kiệm năng lượng chưa bao giờ hấp dẫn hơn thế.

2. AMD thoát khỏi “vũng bùn” với sự tái cơ cấu thông minh.

Nếu như hồi đầu năm 2008 chúng ta phải liệt hãng sản xuất chip này vào danh sách ít có khả năng sống
sót nhất do hoạt động yếu kém và đáng thất vọng của năm 2007, thì nay tình hình đã khác.

Đó chính là kết quả của việc tăng tốc kế hoạch tái cơ cấu khẩn cấp mà hãng này dường như đã “bỏ quên”
suốt nhiều năm qua. Đầu tiên là thay đổi từ “nóc” với sự ra đi của CEO Hector Rutz, nhường đường cho
Dirk Meyer. Tiếp theo là động thái lớn khác – “cắt” AMD làm đôi, theo đó bộ phận sản xuất chip sẽ tách ra
lập thành công ty con có tên Foundry với các nhà đầu tư từ Abu Dhabi.

Tuy nhiên, AMD vẫn chưa thực sự thoát khỏi “vạch đỏ”. Cổ phiếu của AMD vẫn đang ở mức đáy, do đó cổ
phiếu của công ty con là Foundry cũng giảm từ 44,4% xuống 34,2%. Mặc dù vậy, tương lai của AMD vẫn
khá hứa hẹn, một khi cơn bão khủng hoảng kinh tế không “nhấn chìm” hãng này quá sớm.

3. Công nghệ Xanh lột xác

Các hãng sản xuất chip đã đầu tư cho công nghệ tiết kiệm năng lượng suốt nhiều năm qua. Tuy nhiên,
cuộc khủng hoảng giá dầu mỏ hồi mùa hè qua cộng với suy thoái kinh tế gần đây đã thực sự khiến người
dùng và các doanh nghiệp bừng tỉnh và dành sự quan tâm đặc biệt tới công nghệ tiết kiệm chi phí này.

Không tin? hãy nhìn vào chiến dịch quảng cáo rầm rộ của IBM về hệ thống máy chủ tiết kiệm năng lượng
BladeCenters trên toàn nước Mỹ thì sẽ rõ.

Nếu như những người tiêu dùng Mỹ nổi tiếng là khó tính đã chấp nhận công nghệ Xanh thì có thể nói rằng
thực sự đã đến lúc công nghệ này lột xác. Những người “kiêng” “món” này? Không nhiều lắm đâu!

4. Cuộc chiến Intel Core i7 và AMD 45nm Opterons và Phenom IIs.

Nếu như không phải trong 1 năm với cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế toàn cầu như năm nay, đây có thể sẽ là
một trong những câu chuyện hay số 1 của năm. Tuy nhiên, trước tình hình hiện nay, có vẻ như tin “sốt” về
sự ra mắt của 2 dòng chip mới từ Intel và AMD cũng bị phủ bóng bởi “con ma phố Wall”.
Thật sự đáng tiếc! Bởi kiến trúc mới Nehalem mà Intel áp dụng trên dòng chip Core i7 và việc AMD trình
diễn chip Shanghai cho dòng máy chủ sử dụng kiến trúc 45nm đã khiến cho 2 “ông lớn” này ngày càng
chạm mặt trực tiếp và ngang sức hơn.

Việc AMD giảm giá mạnh dòng chip mới, và cuộc cạnh tranh điểm benchmark của dòng chip 45nm này với
chip của Intel lẽ ra phải nhận được nhiều quan tâm hơn nữa mới phải.

5. Âm mưu của Wintel bại lộ

Làm thế nào mà một sự kiện phần mềm “mới nở” năm 2005, “dạo chơi” năm 2006 và mới “mọc thêm cánh”
vào 2007 lại có tên trong 10 sự kiện ngành công nghiệp chip 2008? Điều này nhờ vào việc tòa án liên bang
cho công bố nhiều email nội bộ của Microsoft lôi kép Intel vào chiến dịch marketing nực cười cho Windows
Vista trước khi hệ điều hành này chính thức ra đời và 2007. Đó chính là những gì đã diễn ra trong năm qua
với vụ kiện “người khổng lồ” phần mềm liên quan đến việc dán nhãn “Vista Capable” cho các máy PC hỗ
trợ XP.

Liệu Microsoft và Intel có âm mưu đánh lừa người dùng rằng những cỗ máy Intel cũ kỹ cũng có thể “chạy”
được hệ điều hành “hàng khủng” Vista? Câu trả lời đến nay thực sự đã rõ.

6. Intel dấn sâu hơn nữa vào “sân” netbook.

Đầu năm, Intel lớn tiếng về tương lai đầy hứa hẹn của dòng PC cỡ nhỏ và siêu di động tại CES, tuy nhiên
vào tháng 4, người khổng lồ chip đã chuyển hướng sang thế hệ máy mới – netbook. Sau đó, Intel giới
thiệu dòng chip Atom siêu tiết kiệm năng lượng, cạnh tranh trực tiếp với các sản phẩm chip từ VIA
Technologies. Với thành công của Asus Netbook, Intel bắt đầu dồn lực mạnh hơn nữa cho Atom.

Cho đến nay, Asus, Acer, HP và Dell đang tạo nên cơn sốt thực sự với dòng netbook mới với sự trợ lực từ
“gã khổng lồ” chip.

7.

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10 Chip Story

  • 1. 1. Sales shrink in 2008 and it's going to get worse in 2009. The first half of the year was characterized by anxiety over troubling economic indicators. The second half saw everyone's deepest fears realized as the reality of an economic crisis of global proportions set in. The semiconductor industry was not spared, as bellwether Intel downgraded its fourth quarter sales guidance and several companies announced layoffs and other cost-cutting measures. The news got bleaker as 2008 wound down -- current analysis pegs the year's chip revenues shrinking against 2007 sales, and some market watchers predict they'll sink by another 10 percent or more in 2009. The silver lining: Developers of new categories like netbooks are set to deliver improved performance at recession-friendly prices and cost-saving technologies like virtualization and energy-efficient silicon have never had more appeal. 2. AMD escapes possible doom with creative restructuring. If, at the start of 2008, we had to name a chip maker that was least likely to survive the year, quite a few people would have picked Advanced Micro Devices. The company flailed its way through 2007, adding to an epic string of quarterly losses and botching the release of its first quad-core processors due to a silicon glitch. Perhaps that's why AMD accelerated its restructuring plans with an urgency the company hadn't seemed to possess in years. First up was the change at the top, as CEO Hector Ruiz stepped down to make way for Dirk Meyer. Then, the really big move -- the splitting of AMD into two, with the chip maker spinning off its manufacturing assets to form the Foundry Company with Abu Dhabi investors. The company isn't entirely out of the woods. AMD's share price is still scraping bottom and as a result its original 44.4 percent stake in the Foundry Company has been reduced to 34.2 percent. Still, a smarter, lighter AMD may just be around for quite some time -- if the shrinking economy doesn't kill the company's comeback before it hits full stride. 3. Green IT comes of age. Chip makers have been pushing energy efficiency for years. But it took it took a summer of soaring fuel prices and an autumn of economic collapse to really send the message home to consumers and businesses that Green IT isn't tree-hugging blather, it's a big-time cost-saver. Want proof? Just look at IBM's national ads for its energy-efficient BladeCenters -- which air during NFL broadcasts, no less -- depicting cartoon rainforests growing out of server racks. If the conspicuous consumers of America's most bloated sporting spectacles are open to Green IT's bottom- line value, we're going to say that environmentally friendly technology has finally arrived. Vegans? Not so much. 4. It's apples-to-apples all over again with Intel's Core i7s and AMD's 45nm Opterons and Phenom IIs. In a normal year -- one not involving the global economy collapsing like a house of cards, that is -- this would easily be the top story on all the year-end lists. As it stands, the November introduction of major new product lines by Intel and AMD was somewhat overshadowed by affairs on Wall Street.
  • 2. Which is a shame, because Intel's new Nehalem microarchitecture on its Core i7 desktop chips and AMD's transition to the 45nm fabrication process with its new Shanghai line of server chips and upcoming Phenom II desktop chips bring the two top x86 microprocessor makers into more direct competition with like products than we've seen in years. With AMD pricing its new products very aggressively, the benchmarking competition between its 45nm chips and Intel's is due to get very interesting indeed. 5. Wintel conspiracy buffs have a field day. How is it that a software story that was hatched in 2005, played out in 2006 and got legs in 2007 is a top 10 chip story in 2008? It helps when a federal judge releases a slew of internal Microsoft e-mails that implicate Intel in the laughably misleading marketing campaign for Windows Vista ahead of the operating system's release in early 2007. That's what happened in the past year, as a class-action lawsuit against the software giant over its Vista Capable campaign really got rolling. Did Microsoft and Intel conspire to fool customers into thinking old Intel systems were quot;capablequot; of running Microsoft's graphics-rich new OS? Thanks to Judge Marsha Pechman, we've got plenty of evidence to pore through. 6. Intel puts major muscle behind the new 'netbook' category. Intel began the year pushing the promise of MIDs and UMPCs at CES, but by April the chip giant had shifted its primary position towards slightly larger form factors -- the quot;netbookquot; and quot;nettop.quot; To that end, Intel released its ultra-low voltage Atom processor (pictured) a competitor straight out of the gate for both RISC-based chips and low-power x86 devices from companies like VIA Technologies. On the heels of Asus' success with its Eee PC netbook, Intel started going after the new category with Atom. The upshot -- now the chip giant, along with OEMs like Asus, Acer, HP and Dell, has a brand new category that's growing wildly in defiance of overall market trends. 7. Visual computing goes well beyond gaming. We've come a long way since the first graphic user interfaces were introduced on PCs. Rich visual computing is a bona fide mainstream phenomenon and trickling down to smaller, cheaper devices every day. But if 2007 was the year of novel twists on the GUI as per Apple's iPhone and Nintendo's Wii, then 2008 was the year GPU computing stopped being strictly quot;visual.quot; That's because Nvidia, and to a lesser extent AMD, have worked hard to develop ecosystems around the development of general purpose-GPU (GP- GPU) computing. The basic idea is that graphics processors, pigeonholed for years as eye candy gimmickry, have been underutilized as highly efficient engines for certain types of non-visual parallel computing operations that are commonly performed less efficiently by central processors. So how's all this playing in the wild? Nvidia in May reported it had shipped more than 70 million GPUs featuring its proprietary CUDA architecture for GP- GPU computing, already had more than 60,000 CUDA SDK downloads and was seeing 350.000 CUDA- enabled driver downloads every week. 8. AMD grabs hold of graphics' brass ring.
  • 3. AMD's late 2006 acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies has had its hiccups -- think billions in financial impairment charges -- but the merger finally started to pay off big-time in the early summer. That's when AMD's Graphics Product Group released its Radeon R700 graphics processers, which jacked up the preceding R600 generation's from 320 to a whopping 800 stream processing units. That extension of the unified shader architecture, combined with AMD's industry leading 55nm process technology, produced the industry's first consumer GPUs to achieve one teraFLOP scale. In August, AMD released its ATI Radeon HD 4870X2 graphics card (pictured) with two Radeon R770 GPUs totalling 2.4 teraFLOPs -- and for the first time in years, wrestled away the high-end graphics performance crown from market leader Nvidia. 9. Nvidia closes out the year with a bang. Nvidia was tipped by several prognosticators to surpass AMD as Intel's chief rival in 2008. That didn't come to pass, due in part to AMD's nimble corporate restructuring and its Graphics Product Group's stunning triumph with its R700 family of products. But Nvidia wasn't simply caught flat-footed in the first half of the year -- the discrete graphics market leader also endured a packaging glitch on its mobile GPUs which was the main reason Nvidia suffered its first quarterly loss in five years. The good news for CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and the green gang is that Nvidia wrapped up a disappointing year with a strong showing. The company smartly went sideways in the face of AMD's high-end leadership, winning a place for its smaller, more nimble motherboard GPUs in October's new line of MacBooks from Apple. And as the year closed out, Nvidia packaged those elegant little visual engines with Intel's Atom processor on a platform called Ion (pictured) that could set the netbook-nettop market on its ear in 2009. 10. Intel cements its market leadership in style. What can you say about the microprocessor market leader's performance in 2008? It was dj' vu all over again as CEO Paul Otellini and the relentless team from Santa Clara replicated a strong showing in 2007 by executing their vaunted tick-tock strategy of bringing co-founder and visionary Gordon Moore's incredibly shrinking chips to market yet again. Thus Intel had the only 45nm chips on the market until AMD's mid- November release of its Shanghai products, and thanks to the TLB errata on AMD's Barcelona and Phenom chips, Intel had the quad-core market all to itself for more than a quarter longer than it had any right to expect. During this period, the chip giant also released its ultra-low voltage Atom processors, stepped up its solid state presence and pledged to maneuver its x86 architecture into computing products ranging from smart phones to embedded systems to graphics processors. The bottom line -- Intel's performance has become so consistent we're in danger of taking it for granted.
  • 4. 10 sự kiện đáng chú ý nhất ngành công nghiệp chip trong năm 2008. 1. Doanh số sụt giảm và sẽ còn tiếp tục thê thảm hơn trong năm tới Nửa đầu năm, những tín hiệu về cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế khiến thị trường trở nên bất an. Nửa cuối năm, các doanh nghiệp thực sự lo lắng khi cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế đã cận kề. Ngành công nghiệp chip cũng không ngoại lệ, với việc Intel giảm doanh số dự báo cho quý 4, một vài công ty khác tiến hành sa thải nhân viên và các biện pháp cắt giảm chi tiêu. Tình hình trong năm 2009 cũng không sáng sủa hơn với khả năng sẽ sụt giảm thêm khoảng 10% theo nhận định của giới chuyên gia. Tác động: Các nhà phát triển của các dòng sản phẩm mới như Netbook sẽ phải cải thiện khả năng hoạt động của thiết bị hơn nữa với mức giá chấp nhận được. Những công nghệ tiết kiệm chi phí như ảo hóa hay bán dẫn tiết kiệm năng lượng chưa bao giờ hấp dẫn hơn thế. 2. AMD thoát khỏi “vũng bùn” với sự tái cơ cấu thông minh. Nếu như hồi đầu năm 2008 chúng ta phải liệt hãng sản xuất chip này vào danh sách ít có khả năng sống sót nhất do hoạt động yếu kém và đáng thất vọng của năm 2007, thì nay tình hình đã khác. Đó chính là kết quả của việc tăng tốc kế hoạch tái cơ cấu khẩn cấp mà hãng này dường như đã “bỏ quên” suốt nhiều năm qua. Đầu tiên là thay đổi từ “nóc” với sự ra đi của CEO Hector Rutz, nhường đường cho Dirk Meyer. Tiếp theo là động thái lớn khác – “cắt” AMD làm đôi, theo đó bộ phận sản xuất chip sẽ tách ra lập thành công ty con có tên Foundry với các nhà đầu tư từ Abu Dhabi. Tuy nhiên, AMD vẫn chưa thực sự thoát khỏi “vạch đỏ”. Cổ phiếu của AMD vẫn đang ở mức đáy, do đó cổ phiếu của công ty con là Foundry cũng giảm từ 44,4% xuống 34,2%. Mặc dù vậy, tương lai của AMD vẫn khá hứa hẹn, một khi cơn bão khủng hoảng kinh tế không “nhấn chìm” hãng này quá sớm. 3. Công nghệ Xanh lột xác Các hãng sản xuất chip đã đầu tư cho công nghệ tiết kiệm năng lượng suốt nhiều năm qua. Tuy nhiên, cuộc khủng hoảng giá dầu mỏ hồi mùa hè qua cộng với suy thoái kinh tế gần đây đã thực sự khiến người dùng và các doanh nghiệp bừng tỉnh và dành sự quan tâm đặc biệt tới công nghệ tiết kiệm chi phí này. Không tin? hãy nhìn vào chiến dịch quảng cáo rầm rộ của IBM về hệ thống máy chủ tiết kiệm năng lượng BladeCenters trên toàn nước Mỹ thì sẽ rõ. Nếu như những người tiêu dùng Mỹ nổi tiếng là khó tính đã chấp nhận công nghệ Xanh thì có thể nói rằng thực sự đã đến lúc công nghệ này lột xác. Những người “kiêng” “món” này? Không nhiều lắm đâu! 4. Cuộc chiến Intel Core i7 và AMD 45nm Opterons và Phenom IIs. Nếu như không phải trong 1 năm với cuộc khủng hoảng kinh tế toàn cầu như năm nay, đây có thể sẽ là một trong những câu chuyện hay số 1 của năm. Tuy nhiên, trước tình hình hiện nay, có vẻ như tin “sốt” về sự ra mắt của 2 dòng chip mới từ Intel và AMD cũng bị phủ bóng bởi “con ma phố Wall”.
  • 5. Thật sự đáng tiếc! Bởi kiến trúc mới Nehalem mà Intel áp dụng trên dòng chip Core i7 và việc AMD trình diễn chip Shanghai cho dòng máy chủ sử dụng kiến trúc 45nm đã khiến cho 2 “ông lớn” này ngày càng chạm mặt trực tiếp và ngang sức hơn. Việc AMD giảm giá mạnh dòng chip mới, và cuộc cạnh tranh điểm benchmark của dòng chip 45nm này với chip của Intel lẽ ra phải nhận được nhiều quan tâm hơn nữa mới phải. 5. Âm mưu của Wintel bại lộ Làm thế nào mà một sự kiện phần mềm “mới nở” năm 2005, “dạo chơi” năm 2006 và mới “mọc thêm cánh” vào 2007 lại có tên trong 10 sự kiện ngành công nghiệp chip 2008? Điều này nhờ vào việc tòa án liên bang cho công bố nhiều email nội bộ của Microsoft lôi kép Intel vào chiến dịch marketing nực cười cho Windows Vista trước khi hệ điều hành này chính thức ra đời và 2007. Đó chính là những gì đã diễn ra trong năm qua với vụ kiện “người khổng lồ” phần mềm liên quan đến việc dán nhãn “Vista Capable” cho các máy PC hỗ trợ XP. Liệu Microsoft và Intel có âm mưu đánh lừa người dùng rằng những cỗ máy Intel cũ kỹ cũng có thể “chạy” được hệ điều hành “hàng khủng” Vista? Câu trả lời đến nay thực sự đã rõ. 6. Intel dấn sâu hơn nữa vào “sân” netbook. Đầu năm, Intel lớn tiếng về tương lai đầy hứa hẹn của dòng PC cỡ nhỏ và siêu di động tại CES, tuy nhiên vào tháng 4, người khổng lồ chip đã chuyển hướng sang thế hệ máy mới – netbook. Sau đó, Intel giới thiệu dòng chip Atom siêu tiết kiệm năng lượng, cạnh tranh trực tiếp với các sản phẩm chip từ VIA Technologies. Với thành công của Asus Netbook, Intel bắt đầu dồn lực mạnh hơn nữa cho Atom. Cho đến nay, Asus, Acer, HP và Dell đang tạo nên cơn sốt thực sự với dòng netbook mới với sự trợ lực từ “gã khổng lồ” chip. 7.