Advanced Micro Devices started 2005 well and is on the road to achieving its goal of a 20 percent slice of the server market this year, a senior executive said Wednesday.The company wants to grab one-fifth of the server market and at least 15 percent of the commercial client business in 2006, said Marty Seyer, corporate vice president and head of AMD’s commercial business and performance computing unit, at a Tokyo news conference. AMD trails rival Intel in the computer processor market.“That strategy is serving us well,” he said. “We have achieved greater than 20 percent market share as of the end of Q1 in servers, allowing us to leverage that success into the traditional client space.”Servers based on AMD’s processors accounted for more than US$1 billion of server revenue in the first quarter, according to an estimate released Wednesday by IDC. That’s the first time that AMD-based servers have broken into the billion-dollar revenue range, according to the market research company. IDC said it believes the lower heat dissipation of AMD-based systems was proving popular with IT managers wrestling with higher energy bills. AMD’s Marty Seyer Looking ahead, Seyer said he believes AMD will lead the industry with quad-core performance per watt in 2007 and be the number-one provider of new clients in 2009. Seyer was in Tokyo for the local launch of AMD’s new AM2 CPU socket, which allows fast DDR2 memory to be paired with Athlon desktop processors. The company announced two new processors: the 2.8-GHz Athlon 64 FX-62 and 2.6-GHz Athlon 64 X2 5000+.Initial benchmark tests of the processors by PC World showed little performance gain from the new socket but the potential for more notable performance gains in the future.-Martyn Williams, IDG News ServiceFor related news coverage, read Intel’s Woodcrest 3GHz Outclasses AMD’s Opteron and AMD Challenges Intel With Notebook Chip.Check out our CIO News Alerts and Tech Informer pages for more updated news coverage. Related content opinion Website spoofing: risks, threats, and mitigation strategies for CIOs In this article, we take a look at how CIOs can tackle website spoofing attacks and the best ways to prevent them. By Yash Mehta Dec 01, 2023 5 mins CIO Cyberattacks Security brandpost Sponsored by Catchpoint Systems Inc. Gain full visibility across the Internet Stack with IPM (Internet Performance Monitoring) Today’s IT systems have more points of failure than ever before. Internet Performance Monitoring provides visibility over external networks and services to mitigate outages. By Neal Weinberg Dec 01, 2023 3 mins IT Operations brandpost Sponsored by Zscaler How customers can save money during periods of economic uncertainty Now is the time to overcome the challenges of perimeter-based architectures and reduce costs with zero trust. By Zscaler Dec 01, 2023 4 mins Security feature LexisNexis rises to the generative AI challenge With generative AI, the legal information services giant faces its most formidable disruptor yet. That’s why CTO Jeff Reihl is embracing and enhancing the technology swiftly to keep in front of the competition. By Paula Rooney Dec 01, 2023 6 mins Generative AI Digital Transformation Cloud Computing Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe