AMD Chips Away at Intel's x86 CPU Market Share
AMD Chips Away at Intel's x86 CPU Market Share
Posted 07/29/2011 at 7:19am
| by Paul Lilly
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AMD is getting ready to 'Bulldozer' the market with a new processor architecture, but in the meantime, the chip maker's Fusion parts are picking up the market share slack. The Sunnyvale firm gained nearly two points of x86 market share in the second quarter, and now holds a 19.4 percent share overall, according to new data from market research firm Mercury Research, eWeek reports.
Intel still stands tall in the x86 space with a dominating 79.9 percent, but that's down from 81.3 percent in the same quarter one year prior. What that means is AMD was able to wrestle away some market share from Intel. Meanwhile, VIA's share barely moved, falling slightly from 0.9 percent in the second quarter of 2010 to 0.8 percent currently.
Mercury Research credits AMD's uptick to its Fusion processors, and in particular its Fusion C-Series (Ontario) and A-Series (Llano).
"Together these devices allowed AMD to increase shipments in the mobile market by 10 percent, and enabled the company to out-ship the competition and gain market share in the second quarter," Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, said in a statement.
Like Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, AMD's Fusion parts integrate a CPU and graphics core into a single slice of silicon. Fusion has gotten off to a fast start, with AMD shipping around 12 million Fusion processors through the end of its second fiscal quarter ended July 2, 2011.
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Keith E. Whisman
July 29, 2011 at 6:53pm
That guy is looking at that kid like Fat Bastard looked at Mini Me. Come Over Here! I'm gonna eat ya! Baby back baby back baby back ribs... I'm Fat Bastard and I'm going to eat you... LOL..
It's a good bet that the kid in that picture got his ass kicked. LOL..
Marthian
July 30, 2011 at 8:05pm
He played the psychological card, by attacking your weaknesses.
The only thing that popped up in my mind for that comment was this.
livebriand
July 29, 2011 at 6:33pm
I have an AMD Zacate E350 netbook that's much better than the Atom ones I've seen, I love it, and I'm a part of the increased market share I guess. If they can be better than Intel on the desktop like they did with netbooks, they can really succeed. I previously prefered Intel (my desktop has an i5 750), but my next system may be AMD if they're cheaper and have better graphics.
Trooper_One
July 29, 2011 at 12:29pm
At the time when I first got the first gen i7, I was debating b/w Intel vs AMD but leaned over to Intel for more power at a higher expense. Come to present, when I was building some machines for casual users like my g/f, I went with AMD. It's got plenty of power for email, Word, Bluray, and Netflix, and the odd time, I can play some games on it on the TV (the AMD 955 Quad Black is actually pretty good). Plus I save a lot more $$$ than going with an second generation i-series (the mobo is pretty expensive).
So keep it up AMD. If Bulldozer is as good as Intel, or if it's pretty good on it own, and if I can save a few bucks, my next upgrade cycle will be AMD!
Annoyance
July 29, 2011 at 1:08pm
Come to present, when I was building some machines for casual users like my g/f, I went with AMD.
Thats what I said its more then they can handle, also casual users that come to me or ask me to build them a system AMD comes First .
FrancesTheMute
July 29, 2011 at 11:09am
I'm glad to see AMD making a bit of a comeback. Currently I prefer Intel chips, but we need the competition to keep prices low and innovation levels high!
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