Back to Intel - AMD never-ending confrontation that has recently featured a price battle. Intel slashed the prices and launched the already renowned Core 2 Duo and in the same day AMD has crashed down its processors prices, without releasing a powerful tiger from its cage unfortunately.

On the other hand, we have the majestic show-off - the achievements. AMD representatives said that 90 of the top 100 and more than 55 % of the top 500 of the Forbes Global 2000 companies or their subsidiaries use AMD64 technology and that the companies that have recently joined these growing ranks include Mattel, McDonald's, and Air France/KLM amongst others.

But AMD also announced today that Open Source Systems (OSS), formerly Open Source Storage, a provider of enterprise server and storage solutions for mission critical business data centers, will incorporate its Next-Generation Opteron processors into its new server and storage product line.

OSS' latest server line will also sport virtualization solutions based on AMD-Virtualization (AMD-V) technology to improve business functionality and flexibility. The technology has been developed on AMD's innovative Direct Connect Architecture, and enhances all aspects of x86-based virtualization to increase performance with multi-core capabilities and fast memory access, while simplifying virtualization software and reducing CPU overhead.

"Next-Generation AMD Opteron processors deliver further performance-per- watt enhancements and added business capabilities by enhancing efficient dual- core capabilities, low-power/high-bandwidth DDR2, AMD Virtualization support, and quad-core ready Socket F (1207). Additionally, with planned seamless upgradeability from dual-core to quad-core in the same thermal infrastructure, improving memory RAS, and helping reduce platform costs
through DDR2 DIMM memory technology, OSS customers can expect to be able to leverage existing investments for a reduced total cost of ownership (TCO)," said OSS representatives.