Ruiz invades Russia, firing on intel

AMD HEAD HONCHO, HECTOR RUIZ strolled into Russia to talk up his firm's status as a leading chip maker.

Russia's an emerging market ias far as Ruiz is concerned and he wants to make sure Russians buy as many Opterons as they can take.

He talked up AMD's growing capacity and predicted 35 per cent growth in production next year over this.

And he launched into rival Intel, opening with an attack on server chip Itanic, branding the "alliance" around the chip "a desperate attempt to save a failed architecture".

"The one thing which is important and perhaps is not understood well in some areas of the world," he continued, "is how important it is that Intel's illegal business practices be stopped so that our products can continue to gain based on their own merit of value, performance."

Ruiz predicted AMD would be first to introduce a native quad-core processor. "The quad-core you've heard about is just two dual-core chips glued together, it's not really quad-core," he said.

Ruiz said he hoped the acquisition of ATI wouldn't dissuade Nvidia from building chipsets for its processors. "We are hoping and encouraging Nvidia to continue to develop products because we will not artificially prevent them from participating in our ecosystem', he said. µ

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