14 DAY TRIAL // In a classical case of one company's curse is another one's miracle, it seems that, unsurprisingly, AMD is reaping benefits from how Intel and its partners found themselves selling faulty motherboards.
As end-users no doubt know, Intel recently found that all of the motherboards so far built with its 6-Series Cougar point chipset were defective.
Apparently, the chipset itself has a design flaw that can cause SATA ports to deteriorate over time, affecting mainboard functionality.
Basically, Intel's partners have begun to recall the many motherboards sold so far and the new batch of products set to lack the defect will only show up in March or April.
Setting aside the funds that this will cost Intel and all of its collaborators, it seems that Advanced Micro Devices stands to gain from this, as there is now a vacuum that it has the opportunity of filling.
As discovered by online reports, the Sunnyvale, California-based CPU, GPU and APU maker has been getting increased orders.
Since suppliers suddenly found themselves with empty shelves, they began to order more of its Fusion products.
Ironically, AMD so far has just low-end and (arguably) mid-end Fusion APUs (accelerated processing units), as the Llano has yet to debut.
In fact, since it won't be out until summer, the outfit is in the unfortunate position where it cannot fully capitalize on Intel's misfortune.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that AMD is seeing a visible surge in demand and will definitely gain from this development.
Meanwhile, Intel's fairly aggressive timetable for Sandy Bridge processors has been affected, meaning that it won't get LGA 1155 products to reduce the share of LGA 1156 as quickly as it initially hoped.
The delay will be of several weeks or even two months, depending on how soon the new and defect-free batch of chipsets make it out of the factory.