The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Feeds

Chimpzilla evolves into 800lb super primate

  • alert
  • print
  • tweet

Darwinian leap up the food chain

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 29th March 2001 11:21 GMT

Free whitepaper – Enabling Datacenter and Cloud Service Management for Mid-Tier Enterprises

Next stop the Rift Valley...
Jerry Sanders, AMD CEO famously once referred to arch-rival Intel as 'the 800lb gorilla'. Using this simian rule of (non-extensible) thumb, The Register calculated that this would make AMD a chimpanzee. Hence the moniker Chimpzilla.

But AMD seems to have ideas above its station, judging from the picture of an 800lb gorilla, and relatives which adorns the cover of its new annual report. Fay Wray beware. ®

Free whitepaper – Enabling Datacenter and Cloud Service Management for Mid-Tier Enterprises