AMD told South African hacks that it still has a lead over Intel of two years, writes Mark Davison. Henri Richard, AMD"s chief sales and marketing officer, said: ""We can maintain our technology leadership until 2007/08. "It"s difficult to predict what"ll happen after that, but we"ll work hard to keep our customer-centric leadership intact."
Richard admitted that AMD has a window of opportunity. But, he said: "Being realistic, there are going to be times when we"re a little ahead and there are going to be times when we"re a little behind but, technologically, we"ll not rest on our laurels and allow them to catch up. I don"t see us shrinking and, as anyone that was at IDF can testify, they [Intel] have nothing that can hurt us. "I don"t want to sound cocky," he said. "We"re very focused on staying close to reality, but it seems we do have a very good lead and we can maintain it."