Intel Continues to Dominate Market with a Four-Year High in Second Quarter
Intel Continues to Dominate Market with a Four-Year High in Second Quarter
Posted 09/15/2009 at 5:56am
| by Paul Lilly
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No doubt helped in large part by the explosive growth of netbooks (and, by association, Atom processors), Intel in the second quarter pushed its lead over AMD and everyone else to levels not seen in nearly four years, says market research firm iSuppli.
The No. 1 chip maker accounted for 80.6 percent of global microprocessor revenue, compared to 79.1 percent during the same period in 2008. That was enough to give Intel its largest share of global microprocessor revenue since the third quarter of 2005, when it claimed 82.4 percent of revenue.
Even still, Intel actually suffered a decline in microprocessor revenue compared to a year ago due to still stagnant PC shipments, noted Matthew Wilkins, principal analyst of compute platforms research for iSuppli. But so did AMD, whose Q2 market share stands at a distant 11.5 percent.
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metafuente
September 15, 2009 at 12:02pm
That Photoshoped picture is hilarious. I just bought 2 AMD CPUs and still have money left in my bank account!
1337Goose
September 15, 2009 at 4:08pm
YESS! You beat me to it! The only reason I hit the jump was to comment on how awesome that picture was.
Who gets the kudos?
~Goose
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