Tech Sector 10/30

AMD
Oct 23rd - 20.22
Oct 27th - 21.35
News:
- Nothing huge on the AMD front other than the completion of the deal to takeover ATI. www.ati.com now takes you to an AMD subpage. Also, they announced that they will be able to produce graphics and processors on the same core, which should allow them to pick up market share in the basic PC market.

MSFT
Oct 23rd - 28.30
Oct 27th - 28.49
News:
- 2006 target of 10 million xbox 360s sold by the end of the year is still holding; 6 million have been sold so far.
- MSFT posted an 11% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday.
- IE7 released recently and is doing quite well. I've been testing it for a little bit, and I believe its absolutely as good as Firefox, if not better.
- Windows Media Player 11 was also released this week, I haven't tested it yet so I can't really comment.
- MSFT announced that they will be starting a coupon system for Vista so that consumers can buy a PC now and upgrade to Vista for free or at a reduced rate when it comes out.

DELL
Oct 23rd - 23.43
Oct 27th - 23.3
News:
- Apple is now outfitting laptops with the new Intel Core Duo 2 chips which may cut into Dell's laptop sales.
- The Vista coupon system will hopefully lead to decent sales in the current quarter for Dell.