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Intel Drops CPU Market Share, AMD Catches Up

Posted 06/11/09 at 10:00:46 AM  by Paul Lilly

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Just as motherboard sales have fallen because of the recession, so too has CPU sales, and it's finally caught up with Intel. According to new data from iSuppli, Intel's four-quarter growth streak has come to an end with the No. 1 chip maker seeing a decline in both sales and market share, much to the delight of AMD.

"After losing share to Intel on a sequential basis during three out of four quarters in 2008, AMD managed to reverse the trend in the first quarter of 2009," said Matthew Wilkins from iSuppli. "AMD increased its allocation of global microprocessor revenue due to strong performances in each area of its microprocessor portfolio, particularly in its notebook products."

Intel's market share fell by two and a half points for Q4 2008 while its shares of the global processor revenue inched backwards from 81.6 percent to 79.1 percent. Nearly all of it went to AMD, whose market share grew by 2.3 points.

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TAGS: amd, intel, cpu, processor, hardware, build a pc, Market Share
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avatarIntel needs to drop their

Submitted by Bless on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:15am

Intel needs to drop their prices. it's just too expensive in a time like this, especially the i7.

I hope they read this.

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avatarThis is considered catching up?

Submitted by almax on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 7:53am

"Intel saw its market share dropped by 2.5 points ..... to 79.1% from 81.6%.  AMD grew its market share by 2.3 points to 12.8%."

AMD is as much of a threat to INTEL as Linux is to Microsoft.

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avatarYour point is?.... All that

Submitted by gatorXXX on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 10:35am

Your point is?.... All that matters is that Intel dropped and AMD gained. Nuff said!

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avatarBehaving like a "Name Brand Fanboy" won't change the facts

Submitted by almax on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 11:45am

Just like Linux,  AMD has had since 1991 to "catch up"  and a short term 2.3 increase is meaningless at this point.

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avatarI didn't resort to name

Submitted by gatorXXX on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:34pm

I didn't resort to name calling. Just goes to show how immature you are.

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avatarWhat this means

Submitted by WarCrime342 on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:03pm

If you think about it in consumerist terms, people aren't buying Intel products as much as they used to. Instead during this recession, more people are likely to buy AMD budget chips which will raise AMD's share.

2.3 measly points isn't something to get excited about, but when and if you see AMD producing more chips that has a better "bang-for-the-buck" than Intel, then it'll be a threat. Until then AMD has still got quite a ways to "catch up", but for a company that only controls a 5th of the market, they are competing very well with Intel.

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avatar...that only controls a 5th

Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 12:13pm

...that only controls a 5th of the market...

 Now here the statment is a bit inacurate. They have 1/5 market SHARE but CONTROL id say more like 40% of the actual market producing CPUS

Intel no doubti has like a 50-56% control while Nano, Ion, etc making up a control of like 4-10%

 

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avatar I'm proud to say that I'm

Submitted by Caboose on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 1:16pm

 I'm proud to say that I'm part of that 40% marketshare as 99% of PC's in my apartment run AMD CPU's and have ATI graphics!

 

-= I don't want to be dead, I want to be alive! Or... a cowboy! =-

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avatarI'd give it to amd with its

Submitted by Mr.Pooney on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 6:52am

I'd give it to amd with its phenom II

not everyone is a hardcore gamer with a big bankrole

in my area the 2 don't go hand in hand

so when some one come to me to build a Pc and says i wanna game

with a budget of 1200-1500$ (thats CND$ eh!)

i dont recomend Core i7 and i dont recomend C2D anymore

ive gone back to AMD

and also i agree with PCIV

If someone comes in looking for a laptop for school + a lil sims 3 i recomend AMD with ATI grafix

it just does a better job! 

 

 

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avatarGraphics

Submitted by PCIV on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 6:46am

Well, for notebooks, I blame the Intel graphics card. I, being a geek (I'm here, aren't I?), tell people to get AMD for laptops just because it can't come with Intel's graphics. Apprantely, others are doing the same.

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avatar I think it has more o do

Submitted by nekollx on Thu, 06/11/2009 - 7:58am

 I think it has more o do with Intell pissing on

Mother Board MAnufacturers

Nvidea

And God

 They threw their weight around and got slapped in their fat ass when they started to piss off their vendors enmasse

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