Changes

While IBM was dominating the market for server CPUs, there was still a hole in the market for integrating multicore into desktop computers. In may of 20152005, AMD was the first company to release a dual-core desktop CPU, the Athlon 64 x2. With the cheapest in the line being $500 and the most powerful being $1000, It did not quite match IBM’s “twice the performance for half the cost”. However, they were the new product was still another large innovation in the industry by AMD, and a top competitor for the highest power CPU on the market.