Earlier this week, Intel's bean counters were buoyed by a spot of good news: Its market capitalization had pushed well past $300 billion for the first time since October 2000. Now it's AMD's turn to celebrate because its cap is now the highest it has ever been, since the chip giant went public back in 1972.
As I don't make a habit of keeping one eye on market news every day, I have to thank our chums at Tom's Hardware for spotting this. Though having just written that, I'll probably have an editor glaring at me and asking, 'Why don't you do that?' Well, truth be told, market cap figures are really only of interest to investors and stock market wheeler-dealers.
